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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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NASA estimates the Milky Way contains hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets.
Nov 17th, 2020
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An international team of astrophysicists has succeeded in reconstructing the first complete family tree of our home galaxy by analysing the properties of globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way with artificial intelligence.
Nov 17th, 2020
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Fast radio bursts, unpredictable millisecond-long radio signals seen at huge distances across the universe, are generated by extreme stars called magnetars - and are astonishingly diverse in brightness.
Nov 16th, 2020
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The formation of the solar system may be a long time ago, but it was not an exceptionally long process according to an international research team of planetologists.
Nov 13th, 2020
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Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Astronomers were baffled that the near-infrared emission was 10 times brighter than predicted.
Nov 12th, 2020
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Researchers give radar new abilities using optical data about meteors.
Nov 11th, 2020
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The first mining experiments conducted in space could pave the way for new technologies to help humans explore and establish settlements on distant worlds, a study suggests.
Nov 10th, 2020
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Astrophysicists may have detected, for the first time, this hidden matter through an innovative statistical analysis of 20-year-old data.
Nov 6th, 2020
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How do stars destroy lithium? Was a drastic change in the shape of the Milky Way caused by the sudden arrival of millions of stellar stowaways? These are just a couple of the astronomical questions likely to be answered with the largest set of stellar chemical data ever compiled.
Nov 6th, 2020
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