EUV calibrations for satellite sensors
Thanks to precision calibration measurements recently performed at NIST, satellites may soon be looking at sunlight with new and improved vision.
Aug 28th, 2014
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Witnessing the early growth of a giant
Astronomers have uncovered for the first time the earliest stages of a massive galaxy forming in the young Universe. The growing galaxy core is blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreLooking into the heart of a stellar explosion
Researchers observe gamma-ray lines from a type Ia supernova.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreOrion rocks! pebble-size particles may jump-start planet formation
Rocky planets like Earth start out as microscopic bits of dust tinier than a grain of sand, or so theories predict.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreMeasurement at Big Bang conditions confirms lithium problem
The field of astrophysics has a stubborn problem and it's called lithium. The quantities of lithium predicted to have resulted from the Big Bang are not actually present in stars. But the calculations are correct - a fact which has now been confirmed for the first time in experiments conducted at the underground laboratory in the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreLooking for a landing site for the Philae comet lander
Researchers select five areas on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet where Philae could touch down.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreWhat lit up the universe?
New research shows we will soon uncover the origin of the ultraviolet light that bathes the cosmos, helping scientists understand how galaxies were built.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreBest view yet of merging galaxies in distant universe
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array - among other telescopes - has obtained the best view yet of a collision between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age.
Aug 26th, 2014
Read moreDo we live in a 2-D hologram?
A unique experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe - including whether we live in a hologram.
Aug 26th, 2014
Read moreSpectacular supernova's mysteries revealed
New research by a team of UK and European-based astronomers is helping to solve the mystery of what caused a spectacular supernova in a galaxy 11 million light years away, seen earlier this year.
Aug 22nd, 2014
Read moreToothpaste fluorine formed in stars
The fluorine that is found in products such as toothpaste was likely formed billions of years ago in now dead stars of the same type as our sun.
Aug 21st, 2014
Read moreElectric sparks may alter evolution of lunar soil
The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling by scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking - a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.
Aug 21st, 2014
Read moreSwirling electrons in the whirlpool galaxy
The whirlpool galaxy M51 in a distance of approximately 30 million light years appears almost face-on and displays a beautiful system of spiral arms. A European team of astronomers observed M51 with the LOFAR Telescope in the frequency range 115-175 MHz and obtained the most sensitive galaxy image at frequencies below 1 GHz so far.
Aug 20th, 2014
Read moreA spectacular landscape of star formation
This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the Milky Way. The first, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 000 light-years away, in the Carina-Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way. The second, is a collection of glowing gas clouds known as NGC 3576 that lies about half as far from Earth.
Aug 20th, 2014
Read moreTwo dynamos drive Jupiter's magnetic field
Researchers use computer simulations to penetrate deep into the interior of the giant planet.
Aug 20th, 2014
Read moreLife on Mars? Implications of a newly discovered mineral-rich structure
A new ovoid structure discovered in the Nakhla Martian meteorite is made of nanocrystalline iron-rich clay, contains a variety of minerals, and shows evidence of undergoing a past shock event from impact. Results of a broad range of analytical studies to determine the origin of this new structure and how these findings impact the field of astrobiology now have been published.
Aug 19th, 2014
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