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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made a tantalizing discovery associated with the first-ever detection of gravitational waves. A burst of X-ray light may have been the flash produced when two black holes collided.
Apr 18th, 2016
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Approximately two million years ago a star exploded in a supernova close to our solar system: Its traces can still be found today in the form of an iron isotope found on the ocean floor. Now scientists have found increased concentrations of this supernova-iron in lunar samples as well.
Apr 14th, 2016
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Understanding the physics of galaxy formation is arguably among the greatest problems in modern astrophysics. A newly formed research group investigates the impact of cosmic rays on galaxy and cluster formation.
Apr 13th, 2016
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Scientists are set to use computer models to investigate the results of experimental testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to develop an engineering tool to design missions using a new type of long-distance space propulsion.
Apr 12th, 2016
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Astronomers report on a technological upgrade for one method of finding planets or confirming other planetary detections.
Apr 11th, 2016
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Deep radio imaging has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction - most likely a result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
Apr 11th, 2016
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Astrophysicists have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars.
Apr 11th, 2016
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Researchers simulate life support systems in space travel.
Apr 11th, 2016
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Astronomers find unusual descendant of a quasar.
Apr 7th, 2016
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Physicists have developed optical technology for the 'correction' of light coming from distant stars, which will significantly improve the 'seeing' of telescopes and therefore will enable us to directly observe exoplanets as Earth-twins.
Mar 30th, 2016
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Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical observation ever made. Their achievement produced a pair of scientific surprises that promise to advance the understanding of quasars, supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.
Mar 30th, 2016
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Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely unusual stellar explosions.
Mar 24th, 2016
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Study finds first observed evidence of galactic-wind phenomenon.
Mar 23rd, 2016
Read moreResearchers have developed a new conceptual framework for understanding how stars similar to our Sun evolve. Their framework helps explain how the rotation of stars, their emission of x-rays, and the intensity of their stellar winds vary with time.
Mar 23rd, 2016
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NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave - what astronomers call the 'shock breakout' of a supernova - for the first time in visible light wavelengths.
Mar 22nd, 2016
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The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole.
Mar 21st, 2016
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A team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen.
Mar 21st, 2016
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Astronomers see unprecedented detail of inner portion of protoplanetary disk.
Mar 18th, 2016
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