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How to weigh the Milky Way
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
What if your doctor told you that your weight is somewhere between 100 and 400 lbs.? With any ordinary scale every patient can do better at home. Yet, one patie...
Sharp-eyed Alma spots a flare on famous red giant star
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
Super-sharp observations with the telescope Alma have revealed what seems to be a gigantic flare on the surface of Mira, one of the closest and most famous red ...
Unlocking the secrets of dark matter and dark energy
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
At a traditional stone-laying ceremony outside La Serena, Chile on April 14th, construction officially began of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). This...
Distant radio galaxies reveal hidden structures right above our heads
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
By observing galaxies billions of light-years away, a team of astronomers has detected tube-like structures mere hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surfac...
China plans to launch dark matter probe
Jun 03, 2015 (XNA)
Chinese scientists are planning to launch a dark matter probe satellite by the end of this year, researchers with the project announced on Friday. The dark matt...
Herschel's hunt for filaments in the Milky Way
May 31, 2015 (ESA)
Observations with ESA's Herschel space observatory have revealed that our Galaxy is threaded with filamentary structures on every length scale. From nearby clou...
Merging galaxies break radio silence
May 31, 2015 (ESA)
In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes th...
NASA Telescopes Set Limits on Space-time Quantum Foam
May 31, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and ...
A bubbly cosmic celebration
May 31, 2015 (SPX)
This new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile shows a spectacular red cloud of glowing hydrogen gas behind a collection of blue foreground stars...
Livermore scientists one step closer to mimicking gamma-ray bursts
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Using ever more energetic lasers, Lawrence Livermore researchers have produced a record high number of electron-positron pairs, opening exciting opportunities t...
Discovery shows what the solar system looked like as a 'toddler'
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has identified a young planetary system which may aid in understan...
Queen's researcher works to debunk the theory behind massive stars
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
Queen's University PhD student Matt Shultz is researching magnetic, massive stars, and his research has uncovered questions concerning the behaviour of plasma w...
Supernovas help 'clean' galaxies
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
Supernovas just might be the maid service of the universe. It seems these explosions that mark the end of a star's life work hand-in-hand with supermassive blac...
Monitoring magnetospheres
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
Queen's University PhD student Matt Shultz is researching magnetic, massive stars, and his research has uncovered questions concerning the behaviour of plasma w...
Uncovering the mysteries of cosmic explosions
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
An automated software system developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory played a key role in the discovery of supernova iPTF 14atg and could provide insight, a...
Supernova ignition surprises scientists
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found that the universe's benchmark explosions are much more varied than ex...
The dark side of star clusters
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
Globular star clusters are huge balls of thousands of stars that orbit most galaxies. They are among the oldest known stellar systems in the Universe and have s...
The dreadful beauty of Medusa
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
This beautiful planetary nebula is named after a dreadful creature from Greek mythology - the Gorgon Medusa. It is also known as Sharpless 2-274 and is located ...
Supernova hits star, results shocking
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
The origin of type Ia supernovae, the standard candles used to reveal the presence of dark energy in the universe, is one of astronomy's most beguiling mysterie...
Caltech astronomers observe a supernova colliding with its companion star
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
Type Ia supernovae, one of the most dazzling phenomena in the universe, are produced when small dense stars called white dwarfs explode with ferocious intensity...
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