Astronomy

UCR-led study finds elusive giant planetsCredit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now they're closer to learning whether giant planets act as…
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Sargent et al. This Hubble image stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin). The galaxy is part of…
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Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a major collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Astrophysicists at the…
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Scientists at Université de Montréal and McGill University have pioneered and tested a new genomic methodology which reveals a complex bacterial ecosystem at work on the International Space Station. Their study is published today in…
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Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union between carbon monoxide and nitrogen ices. The discovery offers…
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Scientists have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlookedCredit: NASA/JPL (Neptune), NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring (Earth), MPS/René Heller Somewhat more than 4000 planets orbiting…
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Researchers of the University of Bonn identify extremely rare fusion of two white dwarfsCredit: (c) Vasilii Gvaramadse/Moscow University Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual…
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Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2019 (NAM 2019). The conference is the largest annual astronomy and…
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(Thomas Jefferson University) The discovery highlights alternative treatment options to pharmaceutical medications.
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Neutron star mergers to be topic of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation events Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational astrophysics will converge at Rochester Institute of Technology for two workshops…
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Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) as a new member institution of AURA, a consortium of US institutions and…
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Credit: Space Science Council of RAS Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer…
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Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar historyCredit: © 2019 Rohan Mehra - Division for Strategic Public Relations Astronomers map the substance aluminum monoxide (AlO) in a cloud around a distant young star --…
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to tell us about everything from the time following the Big Bang to more recent events in galaxy centers. And while the…
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