Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA's ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early in NASA's 2023 fall balloon campaign.
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2023
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For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2023
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The mystery of the formation of the first galaxies in the universe is a puzzle for researchers. The nature of dark matter is also one of the most important mysteries faced by fundamental physicists. However, understanding ...
Astronomy
Jul 13, 2023
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A research group led by Kyoto University, in cooperation with a network of citizen supporters, has collected data from gamma-ray glows—a phenomenon where high-energy photons crash to the ground from rolling thunderclouds—that ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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Charged cosmic rays, high-energy clusters of particles moving through space, were first described in 1912 by physicist Victor Hess. Since their discovery, they have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies aimed at ...
Although the sun provides nearly all the energy needed to warm the planet, its contribution to climate change remains widely questioned. Many empirically based studies claim that it has a significant effect on climate, while ...
Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. It's the first time we have seen our galaxy "painted" with a particle, rather than ...
Astronomy
Jul 3, 2023
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Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching from horizon to horizon.
Astronomy
Jul 1, 2023
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The universe is expanding; we've had evidence of that for about a century. But just how quickly celestial objects are receding from each other is still up for debate.
Astronomy
Jun 30, 2023
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Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of ...
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2023
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