Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's FUSE Satellite Catches Collision of Titans

The system, known as LH54-425, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The binary consists of two O-stars, the most…

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Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire

Sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red…

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Hubble Captures Stunning Spiral Galaxy Messier 81

The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favourable view provides a better picture of the typical architecture of spiral galaxies. Though the galaxy is…

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Cosmologists Predict Static Universe in 3 Trillion Years

Now, physicists Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and Robert J. Scherrer from Vanderbilt University predict that trillions of years into the…

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Astrophysicists find fractal image of Sun’s ‘Storm Season’ imprinted on Solar Wind

Fractals, mathematical shapes that retain a complex but similar patterns at different magnifications, are frequently found in nature from snowflakes to trees…

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Laser-Induced Bubbles Enhance Lab-on-a-Chip Fluid Mixing

Apart from that, the bubbles form a strong new way of mixing fluids within a lab-on-a-chip, without the need of complicated external components. The scientists…

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Brown Dwarf Jets: New Insights Into Failed Stars

Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these 'brown dwarfs' form…

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Ground – based observatories join forces with Venus Express

This campaign will contribute to the growing body of information on the nature of Venus’s atmosphere and will help put the spacecraft’s observations into a…

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Medical and High-Energy Physicists Enhance PET Scans

“The electronics needs in medical imaging look very closely related to the needs we have in high-energy physics,” said Henry Frisch, Professor in Physics at…

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Europe’s Space Policy becomes a reality today

Ministers in charge of space activities in ESA's Member States, and those tasked with internal market, industry and research within the European Union’s…

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Cassini 'CAT Scan' maps clumps in Saturn's rings

Saturn's largest and most densely packed ring is composed of dense clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's…

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Mid Sweden University Develops Innovative Digital Color X-Rays

Digital color x-rays are based on the same advanced technology that is used when nuclear physicists look for new elementary particles. The great scientific…

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Stunning Views of Deuteronilus Mensae on Mars Revealed

They show the Deuteronilus Mensae region, located on the northern edge of Arabia Terra and bordering the southern highlands and the northern lowlands. Situated…

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New technique for ‘weighing’ black holes

Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), have used the technique to determine the mass of the black hole, Cygnus…

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First Observation of Uranian Mutual Event by Experts

The observation was made on the night of 4th May by Marton Hidas and Tim Brown, of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Santa Barbara, California,…

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Slicing the Universe with HARP/ACSIS – A New Look at Orion

Orion is one of the most famous and recognisable constellations in the sky. At its heart, it harbours a vast cloud of gas and dust, the Orion Nebula, which is…

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