Astronomers discover clues that unveil the mystery of fast radio bursts
UNLV astrophysicist Bing Zhang contributes to understanding the physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts in three papers published in NatureCredit: ...
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Seeing dark matter in a new light
Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions - James Josephides A small team of astronomers have found a new way to 'see' the ...
Playing detective on a galactic scale: Huge new dataset will solve multiple Milky Way mysteries
Australian-led GALAH project releases chemical information for 600,000 starsCredit: Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez/Australian Astronomical Optics/Macquarie University/ASTRO 3D How do stars ...
NASA missions help pinpoint the source of a unique x-ray, radio burst
Credit: Credits: Richard Shaw/UBC/CHIME Collaboration On April 28, a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar blasted out a simultaneous ...
FAST helps reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
Credit: NAOC Researchers from Beijing Normal University, Peking University and National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) ...
Detection of a short, intense radio burst in Milky Way
Close proximity of high energy pulse suggests magnetars may be at the origin of some fast radio burstsCredit: McGill University ...
Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet
'Rocky' weather could change the surface and atmosphere over time on exoplanet K2-141bCredit: Julie Roussy, McGill Graphic Design and Getty ...
The craters on Earth
Credit: Illustration: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures, The TanDEM-X Atlas, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist ...
First light on a next-gen astronomical survey toward a new understanding of the cosmos
Groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxiesCredit: Image Credit: Hector Ibarra Medel, Jon ...
The role of the Sun in the spread of viral respiratory diseases
Credit: Paolo Bonfini, University of Crete Why do most viral epidemics spread cyclically in autumn and winter in the globe's ...
Galaxies in the very early universe were surprisingly mature
Credit: Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF, ESO, NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than ...
Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2’s impactor
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into ...
Measuring the expansion of the universe: Researchers focus on velocity
Credit: Peter Laursen Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they ...
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
Credit: Image taken from the article Brinckmann et al. (2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 746; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2782). ...
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