New era of astronomy uncovers clues about the cosmos
Astronomers have had a blockbuster year.
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New IR instrument searches for habitable planets
A new instrument to search for potentially habitable/inhabited planets has started operation at the Subaru Telescope. This instrument, IRD (InfraRed Doppler), will look for habitable planets around red dwarf stars. Astronomers ...
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Jul 2, 2018
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Chandra scouts nearest star system for possible hazards
In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places scientists have considered is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond our Sun.
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Jun 7, 2018
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Supercomputer Astronomy: The Next Generation
The supercomputer Cray XC50, nicknamed NS-05 "ATERUI II" started operation on June 1, 2018. With a theoretical peak performance of 3.087 petaflops, ATERUI II is the world's fastest supercomputer for astrophysical simulations. ...
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Jun 4, 2018
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Uncovering the secret law of the evolution of galaxy clusters
As science enthusiasts around the world bid farewell to legendary cosmologist Stephen Hawking, researchers continue to make important discoveries about the evolution of galaxy clusters that capture the imagination.
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Apr 24, 2018
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High-resolution image of the core of the Milky Way reveals surprisingly low star formation
Compared to some other galaxies in our Universe, the Milky Way is a rather subtle character. In fact, there are galaxies that are a thousands times as luminous as the Milky Way, owing to the presence of warm gas in the galaxy's ...
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Feb 28, 2018
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HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic field
Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) using the HINODE spacecraft observed the strongest magnetic field ever directly measured on the surface of the Sun. Analyzing data for 5 days around the ...
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Feb 6, 2018
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MWA radio telescope expansion complete—Exploration of the universe's first stars begins
When and how were the first stars in the universe born? The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in the desert of Western Australia, one of the largest of its kind, was constructed to clarify this and many other ...
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Dec 13, 2017
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'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory
A giant planet, which should not exist according to planet formation theory, has been discovered around a distant star. The new research is presented in a paper recently accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices ...
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Oct 31, 2017
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Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates
A group of astronomers from the universities of Groningen, Naples and Bonn has developed a method that finds gravitational lenses in enormous piles of observations. The method is based on the same artificial intelligence ...
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2017
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