(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College London and the University of Cambridge have developed machine-learning codes modelled on the human brain that can be used to classify galaxies accurately and efficiently. ...
Astronomy
Jun 2, 2010
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The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Astrophysicists are keen to learn why the corona is so hot, and scientists ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 21, 2018
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Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy.
Astronomy
Feb 21, 2013
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An international team of astronomers led by Masaaki Otsuka (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics or ASIAA) has detected the C60 fullerene (molecules of carbon with 60 atoms arranged in patterns resembling ...
Astronomy
Mar 15, 2013
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Astronomers have long relied on light waves to provide information about astrophysical objects. The hunt for gravitational waves, highly sought after but terribly elusive, should get a boost from theoretical studies by European ...
Astronomy
Jun 27, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the "Planck" satellite mission present first results in a conference in Paris.
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2011
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has many different observing modes to study planets orbiting other stars, known as exoplanets. One way in particular is that Webb can directly detect some of these planets. Directly detecting ...
Astronomy
Mar 27, 2023
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