STELLAR CHEMISTRY - ROBO DAILY

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

Magnetars are a type of neutron star, an incredibly dense object mainly made up of tightly packed neutron, which forms from the collapsed core of a massive star...

Digital Sky Survey maps the entire sky, providing new data to Vanderbilt astronomers

Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)

The SDSS-V will make full use of existing satellites, including NASA's?Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite?mission, to lead to new discoveries. Keivan Stassun...

Wind bands, jet streams spotted on nearest brown dwarf

Jan 07, 2021 (UPI)

Brown dwarfs are too big to be planets but not quite massive enough to generate fusion, a prerequisite for stellar classification. Though hot in their infancy, ...

Warning: Neutron Star Collision Imminent

Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)

But what if that alert had gone out before the collision? When Stars Collide When neutron stars merge, they are expected to produce both a gravitational-wave si...

Light-carrying chips advance machine learning

Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)

They have now shown that so-called photonic processors, with which data is processed by means of light, can process information much more rapidly and in paralle...

Deep Dive into a Galaxy Cluster

Jan 06, 2021 (SPX)

NGC 1003 lies over 30 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Perseus. While it makes for a spectacular sight, it is only one of ma...

NASA space telescope SPHEREx moving ahead

Jan 06, 2021 (JPL)

Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, SPHEREx is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 2024 and no later than April 2025. Its i...

High-brightness source of coherent light spanning from the UV to THz

Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)

Throughout the years many techniques have been developed to achieve hyperspectral spectroscopy and imaging, allowing scientists to observe the behavior of, for ...

Experiment takes 'snapshots' of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matter

Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)

Petek worked with students and collaborators Prof. Chen-Bin (Robin) Huang of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and Atsushi Kubo of the Tsukuba Univer...

Northrop Grumman team recognized by NASA for successful control center relocation

Dec 25, 2020 (SPX)

For more than 20 years, the science and data driven mission was operated from the Chandra Operations Control Center (OCC) near the campus of Harvard University,...

Silence please! Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a WA desert

Dec 23, 2020 (The Conversation)

It's the site of CSIRO's Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and is home to three telescopes (and soon a fourth when half of the Square Kilometre Array,...

The Opticon-RadioNet Pilot Project

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Similar programs have existed before: the RadioNet program made top-class radio telescopes available for joint use, including the 100-m radio telescope of the B...

Three flavors are better than one - in ice cream and supernova research

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Scientists look at neutrinos (subatomic particles) for critical information about supernova explosions. While previous research identified three "flavors" of ne...

Euclid's optical and infrared instruments integrated in spacecraft

Dec 22, 2020 (ESA)

The two Euclid instruments, the visible imager (VIS) and the near infrared spectrometer and photometer (NISP), were integrated onto the payload module of the sp...

Scientists complete yearlong pulsar timing study after reviving dormant radio telescopes

Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)

Last year, scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR) began a pulsar timing study using two upgraded r...

Developing smarter, faster machine intelligence with light

Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)

This innovation, which harnesses the massive parallelism of light, heralds a new era of optical signal processing for machine learning with numerous application...

Hubble Sees a 'Molten Ring'

Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)

GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our universe. The object has been nicknamed by astronomers studyi...

When light and atoms share a common vibe

Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)

Such superpositions are hard to create, as they are destroyed if any kind of information about the place and time of the event leaks into the surrounding - and ...

Webb Sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests

Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)

"This is one of Webb's biggest accomplishments in 2020," said Alphonso Stewart, Webb deployment systems lead for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt...

Compressive fluctuations heat ions in space plasma

Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)

In addition to the normal three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) which we see around us every day, there is an additional state called plasma which exi...