NRL researchers catch supermassive black holes launching newborn radio jets
Credit: (Photo illustration by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers led ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Team preparing for SKA shortlisted for ‘Nobel Prize of supercomputing’
Credit: Credit: ICRAR/UWA An international team led by The University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the ...
Chemical physicist to collaborate on NASA-funded study of Saturn’s moon Titan
Findings will contribute to NASA's mission to Titan in 2026Credit: Courtesy Northern Arizona University Scientists say Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
Credit: Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution for Science)/K. Hoadley (Caltech)/GALEX Team In 2004, scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer ...
Astronomers’ success: seven new cosmic masers
Credit: Andrzej Roma?ski The publication is the result of many months of observations of radiation coming from the plane of ...
Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes
Credit: Danielle Futselaar/artsource.nl By studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion seen in April 2020, a Chalmers-led team of ...
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
Credit: University of Bologna In their paper published in Frontiers of Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of Bologna) ...
Understanding astrophysics with laser-accelerated protons
Credit: Photo: V. Bagnoud, edit: P. Boller / GSI Bringing huge amounts of protons up to speed in the shortest ...
SwRI scientists expand space instrument’s capabilities
Researchers add second dating technique to prototype spaceflight instrumentCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 16, 2020 -- A new study ...
Orbits of ancient stars prompt rethink on Milky Way evolution
Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy's rarest objectsCredit: Cordoni et al Theories on ...
Aurora-chasing citizen scientists help discover a new feature of STEVE
Credit: Copyright Neil Zeller, used with permission In 2018, a new aurora-like discovery struck the world. From 2015 to 2016, ...
Preparing for a human mission to Mars
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2020--Future human missions to Mars depend on field research ...
History of temperature changes in the Universe revealed
First measurement using the Sunyaev-ZeldovicCredit: D. Nelson / Illustris Collaboration. How hot is the Universe today? How hot was it ...
Advanced atomic clock makes a better dark matter detector
Credit: Hanacek/NIST JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example ...
Image release: Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster
Images show effect of environment on galaxiesCredit: M. Gendron-Marsolais et al.; S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For galaxies, ...
Ultrafast laser experiments pave way to better industrial catalysts
Credit: none Arizona State University's Scott Sayres and his team have recently published an ultrafast laser study on uncharged iron ...
Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planets
Earth-size planets can have varying amounts of radioactive elements, which generate internal heat that drives a planet's geological activity and ...
Galaxies have gotten hotter as they’ve gotten older
Study of 10 billion years of microwaves reveals a warming predicted by dark matter theoryCredit: Ron Scheffler Who says you ...
NASA deems SwRI-developed satellites healthy, extends CYGNSS mission
Hurricane wind monitoring mission will continue through 2023Credit: NASA SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 9, 2020 -- NASA has extended the ...
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: ...