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South Africa's HIRAX telescope driving industry engagements

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

The fibreglass dish was designed and manufactured by MMS Technology in Pretoria, and the aluminium dish was designed and manufactured through a partnership betw...

Super spirals spin super fast

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

Super spirals are exceptional in almost every way. In addition to being much more massive than the Milky Way, they're also brighter and larger in physical size....

Ancient stars shed light on Earth's similarities to other planets

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

"We have just raised the probability that many rocky planets are like the Earth, and there's a very large number of rocky planets in the universe," said co-auth...

Physicists develop fast and sensitive mechanical tool to measure light

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

The technology out of the Aleman Lab, known as a "graphene nanomechanical bolometer," leverages a new method and an ultrathin material, and could have wide-spre...

The clumpy and lumpy death of a star

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

Astronomers now know that Tycho's new star was not new at all. Rather it signaled the death of a star in a supernova, an explosion so bright that it can outshin...

Hubble observes first confirmed interstellar comet

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view of the comet to date. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which i...

Solving the mystery of quantum light in thin layers

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

It consists of a series of photons that are always emitted one-by-one - never in pairs or in bunches. This anti-bunching effect is perfect for experiments in th...

Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirts

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

The outer regions of galaxies contain ancient stars ejected in collisions with other galaxies, as well as stars that were among the first to form in the galaxy'...

New understanding of the evolution of cosmic electromagnetic fields

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe. While researchers have believed for some time that magnetic...

FAST identify origins of puzzling signals from space

Oct 14, 2019 (Sputnik)

Chinese astrophysicists studying fast radio bursts or FRBs have reported dozens of new signals. A mysterious radio pulse, known as the FRB121102, was first dete...

Light in a new light

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

The paper, titled "Multiphoton quantum-state engineering using conditional measurements," includes co-authors from the National Institute of Standards and Techn...

How supergiant stars repeatedly cool and heat up

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

The researchers analysed the light of four yellow hypergiants that has been observed on Earth over the past 50 to 100 years. Yellow hypergiants are huge, lumino...

The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

For example, more than 50 discovered satellite galaxies orbit our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The largest of these is the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, a large...

Milky Way raids intergalactic 'bank accounts,' Hubble study finds

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

"We expected to find the Milky Way's books balanced, with an equilibrium of gas inflow and outflow, but 10 years of Hubble ultraviolet data has shown there is m...

Physicists have found a way to 'hear' dark matter

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe. Originally introduced to explain why the Strong Force (which holds togeth...

Milky Way's Center Will Be Revealed by NASA's Webb Telescope

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is designed to view the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, but is very important for lo...

Pressure runs high at edge of solar system

Oct 09, 2019 (SPX)

Using observations of galactic cosmic rays - a type of highly energetic particle - from NASA's Voyager spacecraft scientists calculated the total pressure from ...

Scientists observe year-long plateaus in decline of type Ia supernova light curves

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery is a huge step forward for astronomers as they use the brightness of these kind of supernovae to measure the rate of expansion of the universe. Th...

New shine for Sunrise's telescope

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

Preparatory work on the main mirror measuring one meter in diameter has already begun. At the Calar Alto Observatory in southern Spain, the mirror has now been ...

Twin baby stars grow amongst a twisting network of gas and dust

Oct 07, 2019 (SPX)

Now, thanks to the high resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and an international team of astronomers led by scientists from th...