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Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of a rather unusual shell ejected by a “vampire star...
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Read more2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres – however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreRapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies
The findings show that "stellar nurseries" within the first galaxies gave birth to stars at a much more rapid rate than previously expected, the researchers from Durham's Institute for ...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreHubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel
Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp "eye" of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has c...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreCarbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
"The compact star at the center of this famous supernova remnant has been an enigma since its discovery," said Wynn Ho of the University of Southampton and lead author of a paper that appear...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreU of A physicist identifies mysterious core left by exploding star
Heinke and a colleague have identified the 20 kilometre-wide remnant of the supernova as a neutron star. It's the youngest neutron star ever identified, and its atmosphere, a thin layer of carbon...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreResearchers Contribute to Discovery of Gamma Rays from Starburst Galaxy
The discovery has just been published by the journal Nature. The study reports that researchers using the VERITAS array of four telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona have dete...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreStarburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery
The gamma rays observed by the team have energies more than a trillion times higher than the energy of visible light and are the highest-energy photons ever detected from a galaxy undergoing large amo...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreBlast from the past gives clues about early universe
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Univers...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreKraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop
Managed by the University of Tennessee (UT) for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the system came online Oct. 5 with a peak performance of 1.03 petaflops. It features more than 16,000 six-core 2....
Information Technology | Read moreFirst light for BOSS -- a new kind of search for dark energy
A part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), BOSS achieved "first light" on the night of September 14-15, when it acquired data with an upgraded spectrographic system across the e...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreCosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The increase is significant, and it could me...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreComputer code gives astrophysicists first full simulation of star's final hours
But now, a team of researchers, composed of three applied mathematicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and two astrophysicists, has created the fi...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreVernon Lecture Series Delves Into Mysteries of the Cosmos
Nationally known speakers will transport audiences on a quest to find new planets on Sept. 26, journey back in time to see how modern astronomy was really invented on Oct. 17, and explore the prospect...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreSwift Makes Best-ever Ultraviolet Portrait of Andromeda Galaxy
"Swift reveals about 20,000 ultraviolet sources in M31, especially hot, young stars and dense star clusters," said Stefan Immler, a research scientist on the Swift team at NASA's Goddar...
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