WFIRST will add pieces to the dark matter puzzle
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) The true nature of dark matter is one of ...
Tag: Astronomy
Even ‘Goldilocks’ exoplanets need a well-behaved star
Rice University team models stellar activity on Milky Way neighbors to judge impact on planetsCredit: Alexander Group/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Astronomers catch wind rushing out of galaxy
Researchers observe huge outflow of gas extending far beyond a galaxy for the first timeCredit: Image by: Jim Geach, David ...
DESI’s 5000 eyes open as Kitt Peak Telescope prepares to map space and time
Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument nears completionCredit: DESI Collaboration; Legacy Surveys; NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA; NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory ...
UV satellite will open new view on exploding stars and black holes
DESY to build 100-megapixel camera for Israeli space telescopeCredit: DESY, Sven Stein A new space telescope will open up an ...
X-ray scout sees first light
Observations with eRosita promise a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic universeCredit: T. Reiprich (Univ. Bonn), M. Ramos-Ceja (MPE), ...
Neural network technique identifies mechanisms of ferroelectric switching
Credit: Joshua C. Agar and Joshua Willey Innovations in material science are as essential to modern life as indoor plumbing ...
SwRI-led Lucy mission completes critical design review
NASA mission to the Trojan asteroids enters construction phaseCredit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 21, 2019 -- The ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope clears critical sunshield deployment testing
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed a test critical to preparing the observatory ...
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been ...
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
Credit: Hubble and Chandra Image: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo); Very Large Array Telescope Image: ...
Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirts
Credit: R. Michael Rich, UCLA / Prof. P. Duc / Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomers have completed the largest survey to ...
Going against the flow around a supermassive black hole
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), V. Impellizzeri; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black ...
Telescope technology used to take first accurate images of glaucoma-related eye structure
Indiana University optometry researchers took the first undistorted images of the eye's trabecular meshwork using methods originally developed to stop ...
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