RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume the hunt for ripples in space and time
Advanced LIGO's third observing run will provide scientists new data on gravitational waves The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for ...
Tag: Astronomy
Physicists constrain dark matter
Credit: ESO/WFI (optical), MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (submillimeter), NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray) Researchers from Russia, Finland, and the U.S. ...
Ultra-sharp images make old stars look absolutely marvelous!
Credit: Composite image produced by Mattia Libralato of Space Telescope Science Institute Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini ...
Icy giant planets in the laboratory
HZDR researchers use plastics to better understand what happens inside planetsCredit: HZDR / J. Vorberger Giant planets like Uranus and ...
Advances and applications in plasma physics — The first Nature conference in Russia
September 18-20, 2019, An international scientific conference 'Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics' guided by the world's famous publisher Nature ...
Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center
Study co-authored by UCLA astronomer provides close look at what might be happening in other, more energetic galaxiesCredit: Gabriele Ponti/MPE/INAF ...
Conflict in space doesn’t always look like ‘Star Wars’
War in SpaceCredit: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imagine driving on an unfamiliar route and suddenly your GPS navigation cuts out. ...
OSIRIS-REx spies on the weird, wild gravity of an asteroid
Research led by the University of Colorado Boulder is revealing the Alice in Wonderland-like physics that govern gravity near the ...
Astronomers find ‘cannonball pulsar’ speeding through space
Object got powerful 'kick' from supernova explosion Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) ...
NASA’s Fermi Satellite clocks ‘cannonball’ pulsar speeding through space
New radio observations combined with 10 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have revealed a runaway pulsar ...
Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life
For some distant worlds, carbon monoxide may actually be compatible with a robust microbial biosphereCredit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STScI) ...
Spiraling giants: Eitnessing the birth of a massive binary star system
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of ...
Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight — NASA investigates
The stress of spaceflight gives viruses a holiday from immune surveillance, putting future deep-space missions in jeopardy Herpes viruses reactivate ...
A cosmic bat in flight
ESO's Cosmic Gems Programme captures the Cosmic Bat's dusty cloudsCredit: ESO ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT has caught a glimpse ...
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