Just how quickly is the dark matter near Earth zipping around? The speed of dark matter has far-reaching consequences for modern astrophysical research, but this fundamental property has eluded researchers for years.
Astronomy
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It is a widely accepted theory today that when the first stars formed in our universe approximately 13 billion years ago, they quickly came together to form globular clusters. These clusters then coalesced to others to form ...
Astronomy
Jul 28, 2020
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The oldest stars in our Galaxy are also the busiest, moving more rapidly than their younger counterparts in and out of the disk of the Milky Way, according to new analysis carried out at the University of Birmingham.
Astronomy
Aug 28, 2019
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Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have uncovered one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The remarkably sharp image looks back into the early history of ...
Astronomy
Mar 21, 2019
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Astronomers have discovered some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy by determining their locations and velocities, according to a study led by scientists at Georgia State University.
Astronomy
Nov 20, 2017
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An international team of researchers working at a research site situated a mile and a half below China's Jinping Mountains, has found via experimentation, a likely explanation for the high concentrations of calcium seen in ...
A hot, rocky "super Earth," near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy has taken a team of planet-hunting scientists by surprise.
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2021
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Scientists have succeeded in dating some of the oldest stars in the galaxy with unprecedented precision by combining data from the stars' oscillations with information about their chemical composition.
Astronomy
May 17, 2021
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It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles a swirling snowstorm in a snow globe.
Astronomy
Dec 12, 2017
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Hollywood's Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching the final frontier aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company.
Space Exploration
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