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When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second, they enrich the Moon's surface in ingredients that could make water.
Feb 20th, 2019
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A new survey reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undetected galaxies, shedding new light on many research areas including the physics of black holes and how clusters of galaxies evolve.
Feb 19th, 2019
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A new study describes the first direct measurement of how energy is transferred from the chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the particles that make up the solar wind, leading to the heating of interplanetary space.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Two international research groups report on their calculations of what the signature of a phase transition in a gravitational wave, where neutrons dissolve into their constituents, would look like.
Feb 13th, 2019
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A team of astronomers and chemists has detected the chemical fingerprints of sodium chloride (NaCl) and other similar salty compounds emanating from the dusty disk surrounding Orion Source I, a massive, young star in a dusty cloud behind the Orion Nebula.
Feb 7th, 2019
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New research shows that the Sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.
Feb 7th, 2019
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The presence of energy level transitions in the hypothetical boson cloud would induce a characteristic 'fingerprint' in the gravitational wave signals produced by merging black holes.
Feb 7th, 2019
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Researchers have measured the strength of magnetic fields near two supermassive black holes at the centers of an important type of active galaxies. Surprisingly, the strengths of the magnetic fields do not appear sufficient to power the coronae.
Feb 1st, 2019
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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away.
Jan 31st, 2019
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New simulations reveal how interactions between magnetic fields and particles sap a black hole's energy.
Jan 30th, 2019
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Investigating cement solidification in a microgravity environment.
Jan 28th, 2019
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In a discovery that could provide new insights into the origin of mass in the universe following the Big Bang, scientists have used experiments with kaons and helium-3 to experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, the existence of an exotic nucleus containing two protons and a bound kaon.
Jan 28th, 2019
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Data recorded by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable insight about the structure and composition of stellar winds.
Jan 24th, 2019
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It has taken researchers almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by recovering a large quantity of 'lost' light around the largest galaxies in the HUDF.
Jan 24th, 2019
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An organic molecule detected in the material from which a star forms could shed light on how life emerged on Earth.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Galaxy comes from a smaller region than previously thought.
Jan 21st, 2019
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The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, say researchers.
Jan 21st, 2019
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A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash.
Jan 16th, 2019
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