Correcting 50-year-old errors in the math used to understand how electromagnetic waves scatter electrons trapped in Earth's magnetic fields will lead to better protection for technology in space.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2024
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Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion billions of years ago may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive ...
Astronomy
Feb 21, 2024
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Can a volcano erupt after tens of thousands of years of dormancy? If so, how can this be explained and what makes volcanic eruptions more dangerous?
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2023
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After a distant star's explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months—a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, a Cornell-led team reports ...
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2023
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When massive stars or other stellar objects explode in the Earth's cosmic neighborhood, ejected debris can also reach our solar system. Traces of such events are found on Earth or the moon and can be detected using accelerator ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2023
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A research team led by Dr. Zhang Jujia from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Wang Xiaofeng from Tsinghua University has revealed the stellar mass violently ejected from a progenitor at the ...
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2023
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The probability of detecting a supernova associated with a gamma-ray burst is currently 0.00346%. A network of several telescopes in different geographical coordinates, checking data in different photometric filters, analyzing ...
Astronomy
Oct 6, 2023
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After years of dedicated research and over 5 million supercomputer computing hours, a team has created the world's first high-resolution 3D radiation hydrodynamics simulations for exotic supernovae. This work is reported ...
Astronomy
Sep 15, 2023
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A team of seismologists at NORSAR, Kjeller, Norway, working with a colleague from the State Space Agency of Ukraine, has found that it is possible to track big explosions associated with the war in Ukraine using earthquake ...
A large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has discovered something new in the night sky—a type of explosion that is much brighter than most supernovae and is called luminous fast cooler (LFC). In their ...
