Magnetic fields in space clouds feed young stars
Magnetic fields within molecular clouds - formations made of cosmic dust and gas - help feed young, growing stars.
Sep 11th, 2020
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Magnetic fields within molecular clouds - formations made of cosmic dust and gas - help feed young, growing stars.
Sep 11th, 2020
Read moreAstronomers have uncovered a discrepancy between the theoretical models of how dark matter should be distributed in galaxy clusters, and observations of dark matter's grip on clusters.
Sep 11th, 2020
Read moreNew study finds that electrons are locally heated to extremely high energies within the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreUsing computer simulations powered by machine-learning algorithms, scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding how hydrogen behaves on Saturn and Jupiter.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreThe magnetic field is up to one billion Tesla, which is tens of millions of times stronger than what can be generated in Earth laboratories.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreA radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observed tiny bits of material jumping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. A new study tracks where those particles went.
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreAn international team of astronomers has solved a 50-year-old mystery: why is there an enormous gas halo the mass of a billion Suns persisting around the Magellanic Clouds?
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have started an international initiative to build a neutrino telescope several cubic kilometers in size in the northeastern Pacific.
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreReview highlights that treatments targeting the gut microbiome could protect space travelers against negative health effects of space travel.
Sep 8th, 2020
Read moreScientists use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, research that may help explain the still mysterious X-rays that can be emitted from some celestial bodies.
Sep 7th, 2020
Read moreAn international team of astronomers found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis. The system has three large, misaligned rings with sufficient dust for planet formation. The misaligned rings might have been formed by a hidden planet between the rings, which would provide a clue to understand planet formation around a multiple star system.
Sep 4th, 2020
Read moreAstronomers have reported the first ever direct observation of the most massive black hole merger to date. Two monster black holes collided to form an even more massive object - an intermediate-mass black hole, about 150 times as heavy as the Sun.
Sep 2nd, 2020
Read moreAstronomers analyzed 18.5 years of data, to propose an answer to the enigmatic variations seen in the binary system.
Sep 2nd, 2020
Read moreAstrophysicists have for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreAstronomers have produced the most advanced galaxy simulations of their kind, which could help reveal the origins of the Milky Way and dozens of small neighboring dwarf galaxies.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreThe quantum chromodynamics phase transition in core-collapse supernovae has been examined for the first time, using state-of-the-art multi-dimensional supernova simulations and unique imprints of such a phase transition on the emitted gravitational-wave and neutrino signals have been detected.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreIn a landmark study, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor.
Aug 27th, 2020
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