STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Russian physicists observe dark matter forming droplets

Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that does not emit electromagnetic radiation. This property hinders dark matter searches and makes it hard even to ...

Super-slow pulsar challenges theory

Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)

The researchers, including astronomers at the University of Manchester, ASTRON and the University of Amsterdam, carried out their observations with the LOFAR te...

Hubble moving closer to normal science operations

Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)

A gyro is a device that measures the speed at which the spacecraft is turning, and is needed to help Hubble turn and lock on to new targets. A wheel inside the ...

Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets

Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is observing such stars through a large program called HAZMAT - Habitable Zones and M dwarf Activity across Time. "M dwarf" is the...

ASU astronomers catch red dwarf star in a superflare outburst

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

Moreover, the astronomers say, such superflares appear more common in younger red dwarfs, which erupt 100 to 1000 times more powerfully than they will when they...

Measuring the speed of sloshing gas in galaxy cluster

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

Discovering how fast the sloshing gas moves in galaxy clusters has profound astronomical meaning and therefore is of great interest to astronomers. A group of r...

Milky Way's youngest pulsar exposes secrets of star's demise

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

After some massive stars run out of nuclear fuel, then collapse and explode as supernovas, they leave behind dense stellar nuggets called "neutron stars." Rapid...

Acrylic tanks provide clear window into dark matter detection

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

The tanks, which will surround a central detector for a nearly mile-deep experiment under construction in South Dakota called LUX-ZEPLIN, will be filled with li...

Largest galaxy proto-supercluster found

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

A team of astronomers, led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Bologna, have used the VIMOS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to ...

New infrared telescope first to monitor entire northern sky

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The agile robotic telescope, called Gattini-IR, will scan the northern sky once every night, from the Palomar Observatory in southern California, allowing astro...

Researchers solve mystery at the center of the Milky Way

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of astonishing and dramatically high levels of three different elements in red giant star...

Pulsar in a Box reveals surprising picture of neutron star's surroundings

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

"Efforts to understand how pulsars do what they do began as soon as they were discovered in 1967, and we're still working on it," said Gabriele Brambilla, an as...

Massive star's unusual death heralds the birth of compact neutron star binary

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Observations made by the Caltech team - including lead author Kishalay De and project principal investigator Mansi Kasliwal (herself a former-Carnegie postdoc) ...

Astronomy rewind fast forwards to reanimate zombie astrophotos

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Its goal is to bring these "zombie" images back to life so that astronomers can find them online and compare them with modern electronic data from ground- and s...

Aussie telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious 'fast radio bursts'

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The team's discoveries include the closest and brightest fast radio bursts ever detected. Fast radio bursts come from all over the sky and last for just millise...

Chandra operations resume after cause of safe mode identified

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The team has completed plans to switch gyroscopes and place the gyroscope that experienced the glitch in reserve. Once configured with a series of pre-tested fl...

NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky With Gamma-ray Constellations

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The new constellations include a few characters from modern myths. Among them are the Little Prince, the time-warping TARDIS from "Doctor Who," Godzilla and his...

When light, not heat, causes melting

Oct 16, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists had long suspected that this may be the case, but the process has not been observed and confirmed until now. With this new understanding, researchers...

Dying star emits a whisper

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

The explosion is believed to have resulted in a dead neutron star orbiting around its dense and compact companion, suggesting that, for the first time, scientis...

Update on the Hubble Space Telescope Safe Mode

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

Following the gyro failure, the Hubble operations team turned on a backup gyro on the spacecraft. However, that gyro did not perform as expected, reporting rota...