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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The origin of cosmic rays, high-energy particles from outer space constantly impacting on Earth, is among the most challenging open questions in astrophysics. Now new research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2017
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UWM astronomer David Kaplan and colleagues have begun a radio search for the magnetic fields of planets orbiting distant stars.
Astronomy
Aug 28, 2017
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The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster – a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studied for thousands of years ...
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2017
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Exploding stars lit the way for our understanding of the universe, but researchers are still in the dark about many of their features.
Astronomy
Aug 23, 2017
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A dragon eating the Sun. Make that a giant toad. A demon. No, a vampire!
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2017
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A bright Moon will outshine the annual Perseids meteor shower, which will peak Saturday with only a fifth the usual number of shooting stars visible to Earthlings, astronomers say.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2017
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After conducting a cosmic inventory of sorts to calculate and categorize stellar-remnant black holes, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have concluded that there are probably tens of millions of the enigmatic, ...
Astronomy
Aug 8, 2017
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For the first time, a team of scientists have calculated the distribution of all light energy contained within the Milky Way, which will provide new insight into the make-up of our galaxy and how stars in spiral galaxies ...
Astronomy
Jul 27, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Germany, France, the Netherlands and Canada has found that human beings are able to accurately recognize emotionally based vocalizations made by a wide variety of land ...
