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IceCube Antarctic Neutrino Detector to Get $37M Upgrade

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

This month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved $23 million in funding to expand the detector and its scientific capabilities. Seven new strings of o...

Interstellar iron isn't missing, it's just hiding in plain sight

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

Iron in interstellar environments should also be common, but astrophysicists detect only low levels of the gaseous kind. This implies that the missing iron exis...

Russia launches space telescope

Jul 13, 2019 (AFP)

Video posted on the website of the Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, showed a Proton-M rocket carrying the Spektr-RG taking off from the launch pad at Baikon...

Star formation may be halted by cold ionized hydrogen

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

Dr. Raymond Oonk (ASTRON/Leiden Observatory/SURFsara) led this study which is published in MNRAS. He said: "The possible existence of cold ionised gas had been ...

Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger

Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)

A protostar, a baby star still in the process of forming, is fed by a surrounding disk of gas falling towards the center. The details of the process, such as wh...

Russian engineers ready to 'light up' a lamp revolution

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

While LED lamps have become commonplace, they are not the only clean and power-saving alternative to incandescent lamps. Since the 1980s, engineers around the w...

Scientists weigh the balance of matter in galaxy clusters

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

The results are the first to use observational data to measure this balance, which was theorized 20 years ago, and will yield fresh insight into the relationshi...

Hubble Captures Galaxy's Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

The celestial outburst takes the shape of a pair of ballooning lobes of dust and gas and other filaments that were blown out from the petulant star. The star ma...

Radio telescope ALMA finds earliest example of merging galaxies

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

This is the earliest galaxy where this useful combination of three signals has been detected. By comparing the different signals, the team determined that the g...

Spiraling Filaments Feed Young Galaxies

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

"For the first time, we are seeing filaments of gas directly spiral into a galaxy. It's like a pipeline going straight in," says Christopher Martin, a professor...

Tracking down dark matter

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

According to the current theory, as much as 80 percent may be dark matter. This claim is based on several observations, one of which is that stars and galaxies ...

Hubble, Spitzer telescopes conduct chemical survey of mid-size exoplanet

Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)

In size, mass and composition, Gliese 3470 b is like a cross between Earth and Neptune -- a rocky core surrounded by a thick layer of gas. The exoplanet weighs ...

Relationship found between ordinary, dark matter in galaxy clusters

Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)

Researchers used a combination of complex statistical models and algorithms to analyze data collected by the Local Cluster Substructure Survey and tease out rel...

Lightning bolt underwater

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

In a first, they deployed optical spectroscopy and modelling to analyse such underwater plasmas in detail, which exist only for a few nanoseconds, and to theore...

Discovered: A new property of light

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

In addition to many well-known properties like intensity and wavelength, light can be twisted, possessing what's known as angular momentum, something researcher...

Hubble finds tiny electric soccer balls in space, helps solve interstellar mystery

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

Since stars and planets form from collapsing clouds of gas and dust in space, "The diffuse ISM can be considered as the starting point for the chemical processe...

Astronomers Make History in a Split Second

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery was made with CSIRO's new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in Western Australia. The galaxy from which the bur...

NASA's Webb Telescope Tech Improves Patients' Vision

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

As a space telescope, Webb will use a large primary mirror to gather infrared light, direct it to its scientific instruments that analyze the light, and then se...

Cosmic cat and mouse: Astronomers capture and tag a fleeting radio burst

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

The critical Gemini observations were key to verifying that the burst left its host galaxy some 4 billion years ago. Since the first FRB discovery in 2007, thes...

Old hearts might be solution to red giants' age paradox

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

Four years ago, several red giant stars were discovered to pose a paradox: even though they are built from very old stellar material, their large masses indicat...