UT Arlington team collaborates with Princeton group on plasma flows
DOE grant to fund UTA-Princeton collaboration on laser diagnostics in plasma flowsCredit: UT Arlington University of Texas at Arlington doctoral ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Data reveals evidence of molecular absorption in the atmosphere of a hot Neptune
Credit: Ethen Schmidt, Kansas University An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare ...
Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation ...
Stars and planets grow up together as siblings
ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS 63Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox, Herschel data from ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/PACS/D. Arzoumanian Astronomers have found compelling ...
AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find ‘new Earths’
Australian scientists' invention will decipher the 'twinkle' of starsCredit: NASA. Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to ...
Ultraviolet shines light on origins of the solar system
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team By analyzing the oxygen isotopes (varieties of an element that have some extra neutrons) ...
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
'Shell structures' are first of their kind found in the galaxyCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nearly 3 billion years ago, a ...
Two Nobel Prize wins for Max Planck Society
Emmanuelle Charpentier honoured with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Reinhard Genzel wins Nobel Prize in PhysicsCredit: MPG This year, ...
Rutgers astronomer receives Packard fellowship for innovative young scientists
Blakesley Burkhart is working to gain a better grasp of how gas and dust become stars and planetsCredit: Courtesy of ...
Upgraded GMRT measures the mass of hydrogen in distant galaxies
Credit: Rakesh Rao A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman ...
Star clusters are only the tip of the iceberg
Finding lost star siblingsCredit: © Stefan Meingast, made with Gaia Sky "Clusters form big families of stars that can stay ...
Australian research shows NASA’s James Webb telescopes will reveal hidden galaxies
Blinding glare of quasars can be overcomeCredit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, ...
A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe’s missing mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matterCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved
Credit: Credit: Teymoor Saifollahi and NASA/HST At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of ...
Modelling extreme magnetic fields and temperature variation on distant stars
Credit: University of Leeds New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for ...
Moon to Earth: WA to host space communications station
Credit: Credit: NASA. An optical communications station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space is set to be built ...
Mass loss driven shape evolution model unveils formation of flattened ‘snowman’ (486958) Arrokoth
Credit: ZHANG Xuan from PMO The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan ...
Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanets
Credit: ISAS/NAOJ New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause ...
ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organisations around the world, astronomers have spotted ...
UMD astronomers find x-rays lingering years after landmark neutron star collision
New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these eventsCredit: Image credit: E. Troja ...
