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Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation

A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed.

March 19, 2018 Read more

'Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system

New research finds that 'Oumuamua, the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, very likely came from a binary star system.

March 19, 2018 Read more

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star

Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.

March 19, 2018 Read more

The limit on the radii of neutron stars tightened

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.

March 16, 2018 Read more

Double or nothing: Astronomers rethink quasar environment

Astronomers found that quasars don't tend to reside in protoclusters; but if there is one quasar in a protocluster, there is likely a second nearby. This result raises doubts about the relation between protoclusters and quasars.

March 13, 2018 Read more

The occurrence of magnetism in the universe

Precession sufficient to generate a magnetic field.

March 12, 2018 Read more

Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home

Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient 'relic galaxy' in our own cosmic backyard.

March 12, 2018 Read more

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star.

March 12, 2018 Read more

NASA's Webb Telescope to make a splash in search for interstellar water

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into molecular clouds to gain new insights into the origin and evolution of water and other key building blocks for habitable planets.

March 9, 2018 Read more

Unveiling the depths of Jupiter's winds

Three papers answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet?

March 8, 2018 Read more

A new kind of star

Together with gravity, the polarization of the quantum vacuum may allow stars to exist in unconventional configurations.

March 8, 2018 Read more

A peculiar galactic clash

Galaxies are not static islands of stars -- they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this spectacular Hubble image of Arp 256, galaxies can collide in a crash of cosmic proportions.

March 8, 2018 Read more

ALMA reveals inner web of stellar nursery

New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments in the Orion Nebula. These features appear red-hot and fiery in this dramatic picture, but in reality are so cold that astronomers must use telescopes like ALMA to observe them.

March 8, 2018 Read more

First look at Jupiter's poles show strange geometric arrays of storms

With NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have gotten a good look at the top and bottom of the planet for the first time. What they found astounded them: bizarre geometric arrangements of storms, each arrayed around one cyclone over the north and south poles - unlike any storm formation seen in the universe.

March 7, 2018 Read more

Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to the formation of life's building blocks in space

Experiments reveal how a hydrocarbon called pyrene could form near stars.

March 7, 2018 Read more

Physicists lay groundwork to better understand the birth of the universe

New research extends fundamental thermodynamic theories to describe microscopic systems at high energies, like the universe at the Big Bang.

March 6, 2018 Read more

Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map

A research team of multiple institutes released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The team located the positions and lensing signals of the dark matter halos and found indications that the number of halos could be inconsistent with what the simplest cosmological model suggests.

March 2, 2018 Read more

Can strongly lensed type 1a supernovae resolve cosmology's biggest controversy?

Astrophysicists discovered how to control the 'micolensing' effects of strongly lensed Type 1a Supernovae with supercomputers. Armed with this knowledge they believe they will be able to find 1,000 strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in realtime from LSST data - that's 20 times more than previous expectations.

March 1, 2018 Read more