A new(ish) star is born
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have uncovered a new stellar neighbour with the discovery of the closest young star to Earth.
Astronomy
Aug 29, 2011
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News tagged with astrophysics
Exotic galaxy reveals tantalizing tale
(PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters of galaxies early ...
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2011
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Tracking binary black holes
Two scientists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology have been testing a method to look past the intense radiation pouring out of merging galaxy pairs to see the supermassive black holes at their ...
Astronomy
Aug 3, 2011
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Research grant combines astrophysics and archeology to decipher ancient texts
Lucy Fortson, an astrophysicist and Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota is part of a collaboration called Ancientlives which has received a grant to apply the analysis ...
Archaeology
Jul 26, 2011
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Cosmological evolution of dark matter is similar to that of visible matter
High-resolution computer simulations prepared by a team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (FUW), the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Astrophysics ...
General Physics
Jul 22, 2011
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New candidate for most distant object in universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. At an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light years, ...
Astronomy
May 25, 2011
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Universe's not-so-missing mass
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe's 'missing mass'. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team at the ...
Astronomy
May 24, 2011
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Radio telescopes capture best-ever snapshot of black hole jets (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive ...
Astronomy
May 21, 2011
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Fermi telescope spots 'superflares' in the Crab Nebula (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first ...
Astronomy
May 12, 2011
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Black holes from the dawn of the universe
The "Dark Ages" of the universe started about 400,000 years after the big bang, after matter cooled down enough for neutral atoms to form.
Astronomy
May 9, 2011
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