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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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An initial study of dark energy with eROSITA indicates that it is uniformly distributed in space and time.
May 3rd, 2023
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A team of astronomers has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.
Apr 29th, 2023
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An international team of scientists has used new millimeter-wavelength observations to produce an image that shows, for the first time, both the ring-like accretion structure around a black hole, where matter falls into the black hole, and the black hole's associated powerful relativistic jet.
Apr 26th, 2023
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Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars - the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe - by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding.
Apr 26th, 2023
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The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time. The researchers have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail.
Apr 26th, 2023
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A team of astrophysicists has provided the most direct evidence yet that Dark Matter does not constitute ultramassive particles as is commonly thought but instead comprises particles so light that they travel through space like waves.
Apr 25th, 2023
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'Scary Barbie' is the affectionate nickname astronomers are calling one of the most energetic and luminous transients ever observed: a supermassive black hole tearing apart a massive star.
Apr 25th, 2023
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Simulations capture the interaction between a rocket plume and the surface and find ways to make planetary descents and ascents safer.
Apr 25th, 2023
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An exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes.
Apr 21st, 2023
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Astronomers pinpointed the location of the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded was pinpointed at 2.4 billion light years from Earth.
Apr 13th, 2023
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Physicists relate the quantum property of 'magic' to the chaotic nature of black holes for the first time.
Apr 13th, 2023
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Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has culminated in a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of the universe.
Apr 11th, 2023
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Astronomers have mapped the 'disk winds' associated with the accretion disk around Hercules X-1, a system in which a neutron star is drawing material away from a sun-like star. The findings may offer clues to how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies.
Apr 10th, 2023
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Telltale signatures in gravitational-wave signals from merging neutron stars should reveal what happens to matter at the extreme pressures generated during such mergers.
Apr 10th, 2023
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A team of astrophysicists has measured a value for the 'clumpiness' of the universe's dark matter that suggests the standard cosmological model might need to be revised.
Apr 8th, 2023
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