Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA/Hubble (elliptical galaxy M87), ESA/Hubble & NASA (lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 and the colliding Antennae galaxies), and David ...
Tag: Astronomy
Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe
Credit: @ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise ...
Closing the gap on the missing lithium
Researchers account for some of the lithium missing from our universeCredit: ©2021 Hayakawa et al. There is a significant discrepancy ...
Black holes swallow neutron stars like ‘Pac Man’
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, "like Pac Man", in a discovery documenting the ...
Unique exoplanet photobombs CHEOPS study of nearby star system
Photobombs - when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera's field of sight during the taking of a photograph - ...
CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ...
A new type of supernova illuminates an old mystery
A worldwide team led by scientists at Las Cumbres Observatory has discovered the first convincing evidence for a new type ...
The discovery of a new type of supernova illuminates a medieval mystery
A team led by astronomers at UC Santa Barbara have confirmed the existence of an elusive new type of supernova ...
NASA completes additional tests to diagnose computer problem on Hubble space telescope
NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set ...
Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before
Extreme pressure at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national labs ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia National ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast ...
NASA’s Webb will use quasars to unlock the secrets of the early universe
Quasars are very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times the mass of ...
WVU advances collaborative research with renewal of NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center
The University is part of a team recently awarded a $17 million grant from the National Science Foundation West Virginia ...
First clear view of a boiling cauldron where stars are born
UMD-led team used NASA's SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way University of ...
Researchers trace dust grain’s journey through newborn solar system
Combining atomic-scale sample analysis and models simulating likely conditions in the nascent solar system, the study revealed clues about the ...
Japanese, Italian, US physicists reveal new measurements of high-energy cosmic rays
LSU researchers contribute to a discovery that adds a new wrinkle to our understanding of the origins of matter accelerated ...
2021 Jansky Lectureship awarded to Mexican astronomer
Award recognizes contributions to radio astronomy Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the ...
Scientists detect signatures of life remotely
Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever way they are twisted and ...
Researchers receive $320,000 From NASA to study Martian polar caps
U of A Researchers will study how carbon-dioxide ice pits have formed and evolved over time to gain understanding of ...
Mystery of Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter Deepens
When astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn't have much dark matter, ...
