Tag: Astrophysics

Scientists receive funding to study conditions that can disrupt communications satellitesCredit: (Astrophysical inages courtesy of NASA / headshots and collage ...

FAST detects 3D spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar

Credit: NAOC Pulsars - another name for fast-spinning neutron stars - originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars ...

The natural brightness of the night sky

A recent study analyses data collect4d at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, ...

New podcast to highlight science and natural history in Alaska

Credit: Vicki Daniels, Geophysical Institute The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific ...

The Belgian Francqui Prize 2021 awarded to Michaël Gillon

The prestigious scientific prize to Michaël Gillon for his pioneering research in exoplanetology and astrobiologyCredit: University of Liège - Michel ...

Recipients of 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced

Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga are honoured for their contributions to the study of the early UniverseCredit: Gruber ...

A new window to see hidden side of magnetized universe

Credit: Credit: Chibueze, Sakemi, Ohmura et al. (MeerKAT image); Takumi Ohmura, Mami Machida, Hirotaka Nakayama, 4D2U Project, NAOJ (ATERUI II ...

Mysterious hydrogen-free supernova sheds light on stars’ violent death throes

Credit: Kavli IPMU / Aya Tsuboi A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what's possible at the ...

Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

Using neural networks, researchers can now simulate universes in a fraction of the time, advancing the future of physics researchCredit: ...

New application of AI just removed one of the biggest roadblocks in astrophysics

Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of ...

New look at a bright stellar nursery

VLA observations reveal changes over timeCredit: CREDIT: DePree, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Spitzer/NASA. This overlay shows radio (orange) and ...

UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets

Findings will help better identify Earth-like planets that could sustain lifeCredit: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronomers have identified ...

uGMRT reveals for the first time the patchy environment of a rare cosmic explosion

May 3, 2021

Credit: A. J. Nayana and Poonam Chandra Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of ...

Scientists warn: Humanity does not have effective tools to resist the tsunami