NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is helping identify potential celestial targets for the James Webb Space Telescope through a series of preparatory science observations to be completed before Webb is ready to make observations ...
Astronomy
Oct 2, 2017
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The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that pulsars in binary systems exhibit the strange phenomenon known as a 'glitch'. The study is published in the journal ...
Astronomy
Sep 6, 2017
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Researchers at DESY have compiled an extensive catalogue of variable sources of cosmic gamma radiation. For his doctoral thesis, Matteo Giomi, working at DESY in Zeuthen, analysed almost 7.5 years of observational data from ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2017
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On a cold March night in Seoul almost 600 years ago, Korean astrologers spotted a bright new star in the tail of the constellation Scorpius. It was seen for just 14 days before fading from view. From these ancient records, ...
Astronomy
Aug 30, 2017
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Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy ...
Astronomy
Aug 23, 2017
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The origin of binary stars has long been one of the central problems of astronomy. One of the main questions is how stellar mass affects the tendency to be multiple. There have been numerous studies of young stars in molecular ...
Astronomy
Aug 21, 2017
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A group of astronomers led by Javier Lorenzo of the University of Alicante, Spain, has discovered that the binary star system HD 64315 is more complex than previously thought. The new study reveals that HD 64315 contains ...
Chemists at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to possibly store digital data in half the space current systems require.
Materials Science
Jun 21, 2017
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Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago?
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2017
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New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.
Astronomy
Jun 5, 2017
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