Scientists have discovered that post-starburst galaxies condense their gas rather than expelling it, begging the question: What's actually keeping them from forming stars?
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2022
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Molecular clouds are collections of gas and dust in space. When left alone, the clouds remain in their state of peaceful equilibrium.
General Physics
Apr 12, 2022
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Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a pan-European radio telescope.
Astronomy
Feb 25, 2022
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Most galaxies, including our own, grow by accumulating new material and turning them into stars—that much is known. What has been unknown is where that new material comes from and how it flows into galaxies to create stars.
Astronomy
Jan 20, 2022
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Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is very distant from its host star—more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2021
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An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States and Europe has for the first-time unlocked the interior structure of Beta Crucis—a bright blue giant star that features on the flags of Australia, Brazil, ...
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2021
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Have you ever experimented with food dye? It can make cooking a lot more fun, and provides a great example of how two fluids can mix together well—or not much at all.
Soft Matter
Nov 19, 2021
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Could life exist around our nearest stellar neighbors? Led by the University of Sydney and supported by the Breakthrough Initiatives, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Saber Astronautics, this project aims to find out.
Astronomy
Nov 16, 2021
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About 20 years ago, Michigan State University's B. Alex Brown had an idea to reveal insights about a fundamental but enigmatic force at work in some of the most extreme environments in the universe.
General Physics
Nov 4, 2021
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In Star Trek, characters carry a little handheld device called a tricorder that they can point at objects to analyze and identify them. When the show's writers cooked up the idea in the 1960s, it was purely science fiction, ...
Plants & Animals
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