Physicists have resolved a long-lasting discrepancy between the measured velocities of interstellar oxygen atoms and other elements in our galaxy: a difference of 380 km/s, which astrophysical measurements of X-ray absorption by oxygen atoms gave, had given astrophysicists a headache.
Dec 14th, 2020
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Researchers developed a novel multiple-cell cavity design, dubbed 'pizza cavity'. Just like pizzas are cut into several slices, multiple partitions vertically divide the cavity volume into identical pieces (cells). With almost no volume to be lost, this multiple-cell haloscope enables the meaningful output of high-frequency region scanning.
Dec 11th, 2020
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The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed 'Planet Nine'.
Dec 10th, 2020
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The first all-sky survey performed by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on-board the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma observatory has revealed a large hourglass-shaped structure in the Milky Way. These 'eROSITA bubbles' show a striking similarity to the Fermi bubbles, detected a decade ago at even higher energies.
Dec 10th, 2020
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Stellar flares with a chance of radio bursts: that's the weather from Proxima Centauri. New research suggests exoplanets around red dwarf M-type stars will likely be exposed to coronal mass ejections, making the likelihood of finding life as we know it pretty slim.
Dec 10th, 2020
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Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
Dec 9th, 2020
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Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes could be used to send spacecraft to the far reaches of our planetary system relatively fast, and to monitor and understand near-Earth objects that might collide with our planet.
Dec 9th, 2020
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When a previously typical star's behavior rapidly changes in a few decades, astronomers take note and get to work.
Dec 4th, 2020
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Researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae.
Dec 4th, 2020
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An international team of astronomers announces the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar positions, movement, brightness and colours are in the third early data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory and will be publicly available.
Dec 3rd, 2020
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Astronomers report the first detection of bursts of cosmic ray electrons accelerated by shock waves originating from major eruptions on the sun.
Dec 3rd, 2020
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Astrophysicists have developed a new method to calibrate detectors to the light from dust in our Galaxy, thereby describing a new physics, with 99.2 percent accuracy, that may show parity symmetry breaking.
Dec 2nd, 2020
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Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact of elusive particles called neutrinos on the formation and growth of the large-scale structure of the Universe. But now, a research team from Japan has developed a method that overcomes this hurdle.
Dec 1st, 2020
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Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Nov 30th, 2020
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The Borexino Experiment research team has succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the sun's second fusion process, the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle (CNO cycle) for the first time. This means that all of the theoretical predictions on how energy is generated within the sun have now also been experimentally verified.
Nov 26th, 2020
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The long-held belief that the Milky Way is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax - setting the first scale of the Universe.
Nov 19th, 2020
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Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of this system suggest it is the remnant of two stars meeting their ultimate demise: an inward orbital dance that resulted in the two stars merging. The result offers a new window into the fate of many tightly orbiting binary star systems.
Nov 18th, 2020
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