Astronomy

Physicists and astronomers lead efforts to detect new types of cosmic eventsCredit: Northwestern University A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next…
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Data from NASA and Ohio State offer new clues about why stars explode COLUMBUS, Ohio--When NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launched into space in April 2018, it did so with a specific goal: to search the universe for new…
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Credit: NASA/JPL Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used to track thousands of…
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Red giant stars observed by Hubble Space Telescope used to make an entirely new measurement of how fast the universe is expandingCredit: Carnegie Institution for Science Pasadena, CA--A team of collaborators from Carnegie and…
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Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Freedman (University of Chicago), ESO, and the Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous…
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Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic,…
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Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding belt of dust and gas that…
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Credit: Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre University), A. Laor (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and M. Chiaberge (ESA, STScI, and JHU); illustration: NASA, ESA, and A.... As if black holes…
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An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to Earth by NASA's Juno spacecraft, they showed that the direct currents were much weaker than…
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University of Bath awards Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer graduation celebrations The University of Bath awarded Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer…
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Using nature's color palette from early Earth, Cornell University astronomers have created a cosmic "cheat sheet" in order to understand where discovered exoplanets may fall along their own evolutionary spectrum. Jack…
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The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made and whether there truly is a 'final parsec problem'Credit: A.D.…
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Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed an ultra-sensitive light-detecting system that could enable astronomers…
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements such as hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. Iron is most commonly found in…
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