A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does not detect if someone crosses the stage disguised as a gorilla. According to researchers, something similar could be happening to us when we try to discover intelligent non-earthly signals, which perhaps manifest themselves in dimensions that escape our perception, such as the unknown dark matter and energy.
Apr 10th, 2018
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Researchers map the network of filaments connecting the universe's visible matter.
Apr 10th, 2018
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The HESS international collaboration has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations of pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, as well as microquasars, never before detected in gamma rays.
Apr 9th, 2018
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Astrophysicists have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the centre of tiny dwarf galaxies.
Apr 6th, 2018
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Blasts of gamma rays could give astronomers a way to measure the Universe?s first billion years.
Apr 6th, 2018
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MUSE data points to isolated neutron star beyond our galaxy.
Apr 5th, 2018
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Researchers use supercomputers to estimate radiation risks for low Earth orbits.
Apr 3rd, 2018
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More than halfway across the universe, researchers have spotted an enormous blue star, nicknamed Icarus. It is the farthest individual star ever seen.
Apr 2nd, 2018
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The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy.
Apr 2nd, 2018
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By identifying the chemical makeup of the gas, known as the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream, the researchers identified one branch as coming from the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Mar 23rd, 2018
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On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and only the Hubble Space Telescope can see who's winning.
Mar 22nd, 2018
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New software, called ExoPlex, allowed researchers to combine all of the available information about the TRAPPIST-1 system, including the chemical makeup of the star, rather than being limited to just the mass and radius of individual planets.
Mar 20th, 2018
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A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed.
Mar 19th, 2018
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New research finds that 'Oumuamua, the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, very likely came from a binary star system.
Mar 19th, 2018
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Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.
Mar 19th, 2018
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The observation of gravitational waves and light from a merging neutron-star binary system has allowed scientists to tighten constraints on the radius of a neutron star.
Mar 16th, 2018
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