Astronomers examining the nearby universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolution survey of star-forming fuel ever conducted in galaxy clusters. ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2021
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Scientists have measured thousands of nearby stars and far away galaxies that have never been identified before at radio wavelengths, while studying a galactic body that neighbors our own Milky Way galaxy—the Large Magellanic ...
Astronomy
Aug 19, 2021
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Using the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected 15 new periodic and non-periodic variables in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 247. The finding, reported in a paper published July 29 on the arXiv pre-print repository, ...
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby universe, revealing that contrary to previous scientific opinion, these ...
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2021
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Despite a century of measurements, astronomers can't agree on the rate at which the universe is expanding. A technique that relies on measuring distances to a specific type of aging star in other galaxies—called the J-region ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2021
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The combination of high resolution and infrared-detecting instruments on NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will reveal stars that are currently hidden even from the powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The wealth of ...
Astronomy
Feb 24, 2021
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks surprisingly ...
Astronomy
Aug 12, 2020
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Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don't know what, exactly, it is.
General Physics
Mar 26, 2020
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NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well as monitor how nearby stellar flares may affect the atmospheres of orbiting planets.
Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2020
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Using the Subaru Telescope and Gemini-North Telescope, a team of astronomers has revealed that the supercluster CL1604, a distant supercluster located about 7.3 billion light-years away, is a large-scale 3-D structure extending ...
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2019
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