Dark matter is slowing the spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by ...
Tag: Astrophysics
The sun’s clock
All cycles fit the picture: New calculations support and expand planetary hypothesisCredit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA Not only the very ...
Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding
German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures" - CRC 1039 on medical signal ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope selects 24 flight-quality heat-vision ‘eyes’
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. ...
Cosmic cartographers map nearby Universe revealing the diversity of star-forming galaxies
Study reveals that the makeup and life cycle of star-forming clouds is dependent on locationCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO) A ...
Qorvo provides key enabling tech for identifying, mapping threats from near-earth objects
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading provider of innovative radio frequency (RF) solutions that connect the world, ...
Holes in the solar atmosphere: Artificial intelligence spots coronal holes to automate space weather
Credit: Jarolim et. al., 2021. Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and ...
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?
Credit: Yasui et al. (2021) A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact ...
Which way does the solar wind blow?
Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather predictionCredit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S. Yalim, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, and ...
New project aims to digitize astrophysical literature
Credit: Jill Naiman Jill Naiman, teaching assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ...
Largest aerospace society names Sandia researcher ‘Engineer of the Year’
'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, ...
Study reveals diverse magnetic fields in solar-type star-forming cores
Credit: Eswaraiah Chakali, et al. 2021 Magnetic fields are ubiquitous throughout our Milky Way Galaxy and play a crucial role ...
Victoria M Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou receive the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Credit: The Shaw Prize/Victoria M. Kaspi/Chryssa Kouveliotou/IAU The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2021 is shared equally by Victoria M. Kaspi, ...
Dark energy survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution
First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over 1/8 of the skyCredit: DOE/FNAL/DECam/R. Hahn/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA In ...
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