WVU advances collaborative research with renewal of NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center
The University is part of a team recently awarded a $17 million grant from the National Science FoundationCredit: Submitted photo ...
Tag: Astrophysics
First clear view of a boiling cauldron where stars are born
UMD-led team used NASA's SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky WayCredit: Artist Rendering ...
Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
Rice team enhances models that will detect magnetospheres in distant solar systemsCredit: Anthony Sciola/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 22, 2021) ...
Researchers trace dust grain’s journey through newborn solar system
Combining atomic-scale sample analysis and models simulating likely conditions in the nascent solar system, the study revealed clues about the ...
Oregon State leading $17M effort to study gravitational waves
Credit: Tonia Klein CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University is the lead institution for a $17 million National Science Foundation ...
Japanese, Italian, US physicists reveal new measurements of high-energy cosmic rays
LSU researchers contribute to a discovery that adds a new wrinkle to our understanding of the origins of matter accelerated ...
2021 Jansky Lectureship awarded to Mexican astronomer
Award recognizes contributions to radio astronomyCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded ...
Scientists detect signatures of life remotely
Credit: Courtesy of Lucas Patty Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever ...
Mystery of Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter Deepens
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan ...
Novel chirped pulses defy ‘conventional wisdom’
University of Rochester researchers describe first highly chirped pulses created by a using a spectral filter in a Kerr resonatorCredit: ...
Study of young chaotic star system reveals planet formation secrets
New observations of young stellar object Elias 2-27 confirm gravitational instabilities and planet-forming disk mass as key to formation of ...
How a supermassive black hole originates
UC Riverside-led study points to a seed black hole produced by a dark matter halo collapseCredit: Samantha Tieu. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
The give and take of mega-flares from stars
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Getman, et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer The long relationships between stars and the planets around them - ...
ALMA discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive ...