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Taking control of light emission
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves. They ...
Gas arms form giant spiraling molecular cradles of dense molecular cores
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by Dr. Hauyu Liu at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) observed the luminous OB cluster-forming massive mo...
Fresh theories about dark matter
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Tom Broadhurst, the Ikerbasque researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics of the UPV/EHU, together with Sandor Molnar of the National Taiwan University...
Scientists at Keck Discover the Fluffiest Galaxies
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of researchers led by Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University have used the W. M. Keck Observatory to confirm the existence of the most diffu...
Astronomers Baffled by Discovery of Rare Quasar Quartet
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first qua...
Cause of galactic death: Strangulation
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
As murder mysteries go, it's a big one: how do galaxies die and what kills them? A new study, published in the journal Nature, has found that the primary cause ...
Hubble Catches Stellar Exodus in Action
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their slow-paced, 40-million...
Water was plentiful in the early universe
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have long held that water - two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom - was a relative latecomer to the universe. They believed that any element heavier...
Delta Cephei's hidden companion
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
To measure distances in the Universe, astronomers use Cepheids, a family of variable stars whose luminosity varies with time. Their role as distance calibrators...
Subaru Telescope Observers Superflare Stars with Large Starspots
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers has used the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope to conduct spectroscopic observations of Sun-like "superflare" stars fir...
Milky Way may have four spiral arms
May 12, 2015 (UPI)
Evidence suggests the Milky Way galaxy has an additional two spiral arms. That makes four. The exact number of arms in the Milky Way's spiral has long been a po...
Star Explosion is Lopsided, Finds NASA's NuSTAR
May 09, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has found evidence that a massive star exploded in a lopsided fashion, sending ejected material flying ...
Proto super star cluster - a cosmic 'dinosaur egg' about to hatch
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Globular clusters - dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars - are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many...
Sounding rocket unveils makeup of a supernova remnant
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
he OGRESS payload was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket 4:30:01:05 a.m. EDT (2:30:01:05 a.m. MDT), May 2, from the White...
Dark-Matter Labs Become Subterranean Centers for Science
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
Deep beneath our feet, below mountains and mine shafts, a scientific transformation is taking place. Laboratories that were custom built to search for particles...
The Dark Matter 'conspiracy'
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
Surprising gravitational similarities between spiral and elliptical galaxies have been discovered by an international team, including astronomers from Swinburne...
Pulsar with widest orbit ever detected
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's (N...
The Dark Matter Conspiracy
May 03, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led by Michele Cappellari from the University of Oxford, has used data gathered by the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to...
NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars
May 03, 2015 (JPL)
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, ...
Riddle of Galactic Thin-Thick Disk Solved
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
A long-standing puzzle regarding the nature of disk galaxies has finally been solved by a team of astronomers led by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for...
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