The nature of the stars was not entirely clear until now. In a paper published in the Aug. 18 issue of Science, co-authors Peter Tuthill of the University of…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged some of the galaxy's oldest and dimmest stars, offering a rare experimental glimpse of two mysterious…
“Unlike water, which speeds up as it passes through a small nozzle, photons of light have less momentum at the center of a focused laser beam,” says Kurt…
Astronomers have finally learned the identity of a mysterious “Quintuplet Cluster” of stars situated near the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's core: At…
Scientists responsible for the D-CIXS instrument on SMART-1 are also announcing that they have detected aluminium, magnesium and silicon. “We have good maps of…
Astronomers have identified two fundamental transitions in the physics of stars related to age that may help further refine the Milky Way's age. The results…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the team took hundreds of high-resolution photos and compared the images pixel-by-pixel to identify the dimmest stars in…
The results, described in the Aug. 18, 2006, issue of Science,* are the first to be published about work at NIST's new Center for Nanoscale Science and…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered what astronomers are reporting as the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster. Globular clusters are…
Like most of its lunar predecessors, SMART-1 will conclude its scientific observations of the Moon through a small impact on the lunar surface. This is planned…
UA Associate Professor of Physics Andrei Lebed has discovered that strong magnetism changes the basic, intrinsic properties of electrons flowing through…
An international group of astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion…
Bipolar transistors are solid state semiconductor devices used in mobile phones and various wireless systems. According to Professor Peter Ashburn who…
But for Johns Hopkins University mathematician William Minicozzi, the translucent film that automatically arranges itself into the least possible surface area…
All the atoms in the universe just got looser, at least in the eyes of humans. No, the laws of physics didn't change overnight, but our knowledge of how strong…
The new light microscope is so powerful it allows scientists to peer deep inside cells to see the fundamental organization of the key structures within….
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