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The world's most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today in the form of the 'light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS II.
May 23rd, 2023
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Researchers have observed the X-ray emission of the most luminous quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history, known as SMSS J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short. The new perspective sheds light on the inner workings of quasars and how they interact with their environment.
May 19th, 2023
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Astronomers discover a second 'impossible' ring around the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar
May 19th, 2023
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For the first time, astronomers have observed radio waves emitted by a Type Ia supernova, a type of explosion originating from a white dwarf star. This provides important clues to understand how white dwarfs explode.
May 18th, 2023
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New research reveals the probable existence of a strange quark matter core in massive neutron stars. The study sheds new light on the equation of state of dense matter, bridging the gap between hadronic and quark matter states.
May 18th, 2023
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Astronomersl have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet around a nearby small red dwarf star that appears to be carpeted with volcanoes.
May 17th, 2023
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A new study simulated dozens of solar flares and showed that analysis of the Lyman Continuum spectrum formed by hydrogen ionization and recombination can be used for diagnosis of the solar plasma.
May 16th, 2023
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High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf show a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter.
May 15th, 2023
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Using Webb's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas - specifically water vapor - around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved in that region.
May 15th, 2023
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Learn about FRB 20190520B, the first continuously active repeating FRB, and its significant implications for the fields of astronomy and physics.
May 12th, 2023
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The explosion is more than ten times brighter than any known supernova and three times brighter than the brightest tidal disruption event, where a star falls into a supermassive black hole.
May 12th, 2023
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Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of energy when they are inside galaxies that are expected to collide with a neighbouring galaxy.
May 11th, 2023
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Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic 'lumps' of the inflaton field that drove the early Universe's rapid expansion.
May 11th, 2023
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Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center.
May 9th, 2023
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Astronomers imaged the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light. But to their surprise, the dusty structures are much more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system.
May 8th, 2023
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Scientists measured the masses of several key nuclei with high-precision by employing a state-of-the-art storage-ring mass spectrometry technique. Using the new mass data, they investigated X-ray bursts on the surface of a neutron star, thus deepening the understanding of neutron star properties.
May 5th, 2023
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Scientists have observed hints of stars just before, and shortly after, the act of consuming entire planets, but they have never caught one in the act until now.
May 4th, 2023
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What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away?
May 3rd, 2023
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