NPS supports FVEY efforts to streamline space technologies
Credit: Javier Chagoya/Naval Postgraduate School The creation of the U.S. Space Force has inspired a renewed interest in space systems ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Stars and skulls: New ESO image reveals eerie nebula
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Galaxies in the very early universe were surprisingly mature
Credit: Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF, ESO, NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than ...
Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2’s impactor
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into ...
American Institute of Physics announces 2020 Science Communication Award winners
Credit: Hockfield, Sokol, Manley WASHINGTON, October 29, 2020 -- The American Institute of Physics recognizes the winners of the 2020 ...
Measuring the expansion of the universe: Researchers focus on velocity
Credit: Peter Laursen Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they ...
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
Credit: Image taken from the article Brinckmann et al. (2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 746; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2782). ...
Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object
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Surprisingly mature galaxies in the early Universe
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A major milestone for an underground dark matter search experiment
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The Grantecan finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
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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 ...
Stars and planets grow up together as siblings
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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 ...
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