Using the Spectrum–RG (SRG) spacecraft and two ground-based telescopes, Russian astronomers have observed X-ray sources in the eastern Galactic sky. The observational campaign resulted in the detection of 14 new active ...
The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by a handful of bright stars and the indistinct smudges of extremely distant galaxies in the background. It lies around 44 ...
Astronomy
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Astronomers have used a newly upgraded world-leading radio telescope to unbury the radio emissions from a galaxy cluster known as CIZA1359. The signal has until now been buried in noise from a nearby foreground object.
Astronomy
Jun 15, 2023
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For optical astronomical observatories, the cloud coverage during night-time directly determines the available observing time (AOT) of a telescope, the most basic parameter in astronomical observations.
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2023
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Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have measured the masses of several key nuclei with high precision by employing the most advanced storage-ring ...
General Physics
May 4, 2023
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An instrument called ShadowCam is giving NASA's planned Artemis missions to the moon some advanced views of a landing site. It's mounted to the Danuri Korea Pathfinder Lunar orbiter sent to the moon last year. Lately, this ...
Astronomy
May 2, 2023
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A research team led by the researcher Wang Jian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with the Polar Research Institute of China, developed the Near-Infrared Sky Brightness Monitor (NISBM) ...
Astronomy
Apr 21, 2023
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By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to have been unpolarized according to atomic physics, are in fact highly polarized, ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 20, 2023
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An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to conduct near-infrared imaging of GN-z11—one of the most distant galaxies known to date. Results of these observations yield important ...
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed a nearby brown dwarf known as HD 19467 B. Results of the observational campaign, published January 26 on the arXiv pre-print server, yield important ...
