Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. According to a new…
Astronomers identify the object as 3C 454.3, an active galaxy located 7.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. But even among active…
An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in…
As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these…
Take the beryllium dimer, a seemingly simple molecule made up of two atoms that University of Delaware physicists Krzysztof Szalewicz and Konrad Patkowski and…
Although a theory developed years ago describes what the explosion of such an enormous star should look like, no one had actually observed one – until now. An…
The amount of exquisite detail seen in this portrait, which beautifully reveals the life of a large family of stars, is due to the Multi-conjugate Adaptive…
With an estimated mass of 10 – 40 times Jupiter's mass, GJ 758 B is either a giant planet or a lightweight brown dwarf. Its orbit is somewhat larger than…
The demonstration, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, not only paves the way for exploring the complex natural phenomena involving charged…
Faculty and students from Louisiana Tech University are playing an important role in what has been described as “the most complex and comprehensive science…
An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object…
The results are particularly attractive for infrared countermeasure, a way of misguiding incoming missiles to protect commercial and military aircrafts. The…
A better understanding of these properties is fundamental to the development of “spintronics,” electronic devices that will use electron spin, a characteristic…
The new IMPRS “Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries” is organised by the departments of Prof. Klaus Blaum, Prof. Werner Hofmann and Prof. Manfred Lindner…
For the first time, physicists have used laser light to create “synthetic magnetism,” an exotic condition in which neutral atoms suddenly begin to behave as if…
Chao Chen and Qing Liang et al found the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin as the biggest mascon on the moon and put forward a fault structure hypothesis for the…
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