Nahum Arav part of team to discover quasar tsunamis
Credit: Virginia Tech Using the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech's ...
Tag: Astronomy
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere, despite its name, is not actually a sphere. Space physicists have ...
What can you do with spiral graph? Help understand how galaxies evolve
Credit: Ian Hewitt Spiral structure is seen in a variety of natural objects, ranging from plants and animals to tropical ...
Astrophysicists wear 3D glasses to watch quasars
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO) A team of researchers from Russia and Greece has shown a way to determine ...
Breakthrough made towards building the world’s most powerful particle accelerator
Credit: UNIST An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization ...
Slime mold simulations used to map dark matter holding universe together
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures ...
Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web
The problem-solving prowess of a simple slime mold has been harnessed to trace the large-scale structure of the universeCredit: Burchett ...
To make ultra-black materials that won’t weigh things down, consider the butterfly
Some butterflies have ultra-black wings that rival the blackest materials made by humans, using wing scales that are only a ...
Paper sheds light on infant universe and origin of matter
New study from researchers at IAS and University of MichiganCredit: Graphic: Harigaya and Co Photo: NASA A new study, conducted ...
Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobsCredit: Yiping Ao/VLT/Hawk-I/Blanco ...
The AIAA taps space weather pioneer Louis Lanzerotti for a career award
Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Louis Lanzerotti, a distinguished research professor of physics best known for shedding light on ...
Turbulent convection at the heart of stellar activity
By combining modern data analysis techniques with stellar structure modelling for main-sequence and giant stars, researchers shed new light on ...
Astronomers pinpoint rare binary brown dwarf
Credit: University of Birmingham / Amanda J. Smith. Astronomers working on 'first light' results from a newly commissioned telescope in ...
Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge
Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant ...
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions
NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things ...
Dimming Betelgeuse likely isn’t cold, just dusty, new study shows
Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al. Late last year, news broke that the star Betelgeuse was fading significantly, ultimately dropping to ...
European Astronomical Society prize for star astronomer
Credit: Lancaster University Dr Jorryt Matthee has been awarded a 25,000 € MERAC Prize by the European Astronomical Society for ...
New ESO study evaluates impact of satellite constellations on astronomical observations
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better ...
Is life a game of chance?
Study reveals life in the universe could be common, but not in our neighborhoodCredit: Pixabay CC-0 https://pixabay.com/illustrations/dna-string-biology-3d-1811955/ To help answer ...
ALMA spots metamorphosing aged star
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tafoya et al. An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured ...
