To boldly go where no one has gone before – it's not science fiction to Matt Covington, an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas. After completing a doctoral degree in theoretical astrophysics, ...
Environment
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The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA) of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan upgraded the supercomputer Cray XC30 system "ATERUI". By introducing state-of-the-art CPUs, the theoretical peak performance ...
Hardware
Nov 27, 2014
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An international team of scientists has succeeded in explaining the formation and propagation over astronomical distances of jets of matter emitted by young stars—one of the most fascinating mysteries of modern astronomy. ...
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2014
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On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was ...
Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2014
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ESA has selected the Athena advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics as its second 'Large-class' science mission.
Astronomy
Jun 30, 2014
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Neutron stars are amongst the most exotic astrophysical objects in the Universe. Born from the supernova explosion of massive stars, neutron stars are so densely compacted by their own gravity that a sphere just 20 kilometers ...
Astronomy
Jun 20, 2014
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Worlds like this one aren't supposed to exist. In Draco the Dragon-the 8th largest constellation in our sky-there exists a solid planet weighing close to 17 times as much as Earth. This announcement rocked the scientific ...
Astronomy
Jun 16, 2014
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What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical physicists working on quantum gravity by creating models attempting to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. Some of these models predict ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 23, 2014
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For decades, astrophysicists have encountered a puzzling contradiction: although many galactic-wind models—simulations of how matter is distributed in our universe—predict that the majority of the "normal" matter exists ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2014
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The details of how massive stars explode remains one of the biggest questions in astrophysics.
Astronomy
Nov 8, 2013
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