FEFU scientists participate in development of ceramic materials that are IR-transparent
Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) teamed up with colleagues from Institute of Chemistry (FEB ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in ...
OU geoscientists document 300 million year old atmospheric dust
OU geoscientists document the role of atmospheric dust on marine ecosystems 300 million years agoCredit: University of Oklahoma Dust plays ...
Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theory
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Higuchi et al. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by ...
Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles
Physicists extend Rice Convection Model with details of magnetospheric buoyancy wavesCredit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2019) - The ...
Scientists find iron ‘snow’ in Earth’s core
Credit: University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, ...
Fireballs: mail from space
Is anything going to hit Earth? A neat approach to make quicker and more exact analyses of fireball observationsCredit: Riitta-Leena ...
The ‘cores’ of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the big bang
Credit: NAOJ/Tanaka et al. 2019 A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion ...
ESO observations reveal black holes’ breakfast at the cosmic dawn
Credit: ESO/Farina et al.; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decarli et al. Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool ...
Hebrew U researcher cracks newton’s elusive ‘3-body’ problem
Chaos leads scientists to new understanding of centuries'-old quandaryCredit: Noam Chai/Hebrew University It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac ...
NASA’s GISMO instrument maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic ‘candy cane’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite ...
New clues on dark matter from the darkest galaxies
A study by SISSA provides important information on its composition and on its interaction with luminous matterCredit: ESA/Hubble & NASA ...
Successful satellite launch for Graz University of Technology, Austria
ESA's OPS-SAT mission to test new space technology in orbital flightCredit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz The aim of the ...
Developing a technique to study past Martian climate
UH Geology student awarded $285,000 NASA grantCredit: University of Houston Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she ...
Distant milky way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universe
Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The ...
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefs
Credit: NAOJ Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young ...
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
Credit: CSHOR CSIRO research has found global warming will make it more difficult to predict multi-year global climate variations, a ...
$1M Schmidt Futures grant awarded to accelerate computer modeling of the cosmos at IAS
James M. Stone, professor of computational astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, heads IAS project on the Dynamics of ...
ESO telescope images stunning central region of Milky Way, finds ancient star burst
Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular ...
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts
Credit: ERG Science Team A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the USA, and Russia has found a hot spot in ...
