The magnetic field of the sun plays a crucial role in shaping the heliosphere - the domain of the sun - by accelerating the solar wind into a pair of jets.
Feb 19th, 2015
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Lithium is a key element in the strudy of the chemical evolution of the universe because it likely was and is produced in several ways: through Big Bang nucleosynthesis, in collisions between energetic cosmic rays and the interstellar medium, inside stellar interiors, and as a result of novae and supernova explosions.
Feb 19th, 2015
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Solar storm found to produce 'ultrarelativistic, killer electrons' in 60 seconds.
Feb 18th, 2015
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A team of researchers have successfully demonstrated how a solar telescope can be combined with a piece of technology that has already taken the physics world by storm - the laser frequency comb (LFC).
Feb 18th, 2015
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Researchers are studying images of a mysterious bulge that rose up more than 200 km from the surface.
Feb 18th, 2015
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A new study of football-shaped collections of stars called elliptical galaxies provides new insights into the connection between a galaxy and its black hole. It finds that the invisible hand of dark matter somehow influences black hole growth.
Feb 18th, 2015
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New SPHERE instrument shows its power.
Feb 18th, 2015
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Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago.
Feb 17th, 2015
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One of the project leaders offers insight into the latest data release from the Planck space telescope.
Feb 17th, 2015
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Simulations by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University indicate that Earth-like planets are more likely to be found orbiting Sun-like stars rather than lower-mass stars that are currently targeted, in terms of water contents of planets.
Feb 17th, 2015
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Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars at a dizzying pace - up to 1,000 times faster than typical spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. To help understand why some galaxies 'burst' while others do not, an international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to dissect a cluster of star-forming clouds at the heart of NGC 253, one of the nearest starburst galaxies to the Milky Way.
Feb 16th, 2015
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Astronomers tinkering with ice and organics in the lab may have discovered why comets are encased in a hard, outer crust.
Feb 16th, 2015
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The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the centre of Christopher Nolan's epic, Interstellar, have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new insights into the powerful effects of black holes.
Feb 13th, 2015
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Ideas about directing evolution of life forms on Earth and finding life on other planets are rapidly morphing from science-fiction fantasy into mainstream science.
Feb 12th, 2015
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It's been more than 40 years since astronauts returned the last Apollo samples from the moon, and since then those samples have undergone some of the most extensive and comprehensive analysis of any geological collection. Researchers have now refined the timeline of meteorite impacts on the moon through a pioneering application of laser microprobe technology to Apollo 17 samples.
Feb 12th, 2015
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An international team of researchers has discovered something extraordinary in space: a new star system forming from parts of a filamentary gas cloud.
Feb 12th, 2015
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The Dark Energy Camera, or DECam, peers deep into space from its mount on the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope high in the Chilean Andes.
Feb 12th, 2015
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Supermassive black hole blasting gas, transforming galaxy.
Feb 11th, 2015
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