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PolyU conducts successful catalyst material experiments in Low Earth Orbit Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The Shijian-19 satellite, China's first reusable and returnable satellite, has completed its mission and returned to Earth, carrying a variety of experimental payloads. Among these was the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's (PolyU) in-orbit material experiment testbed, a milestone as Hong Kong's first reusable experimental payload to return from space. The China National Space Administration formally handed over the payloads at a ceremony in Beijing on October 24, marking the success of this significant ... read more |
Discovery Alert: a 'Hot Neptune' in a Tight Orbit Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific mission. The fi ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the largest and most sensitive filled-aperture radio telescope in the world, has identified over 1,000 new pulsars since it bega ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 Researchers at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have made a record-setting discovery while uncovering clues to a rare cosmic phenomenon kno ... more |
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Available on Amazon Books Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray ... more |
New bar set for simulating the universe in the Exascale era Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The universe just got a whole lot bigger - or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory u ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has successfully resumed normal operations following a communication disruption last month. The issue arose when the spacecraft unexpectedly switched from its primary X-b ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 30, 2024 A recent study has revealed how iron sulfides may have influenced the emergence of life on early Earth by catalyzing the formation of prebiotic organic molecules in terrestrial hot springs. This res ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 In a major advancement for strong field physics, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in Korea have successfully demonstrated nonlinear C ... more |
Attosecond X-ray pulses at high repetition rates revolutionize atomic imaging Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 A collaborative team of scientists from European XFEL and DESY has achieved a significant milestone in X-ray science by producing high-power attosecond hard X-ray pulses at unprecedented megahertz r ... more Available on Amazon Books |
HESS Observatory identifies highest-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons yet observed Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Scientists from CNRS, a German university consortium, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik working at the H.E.S.S. Observatory in Namibia have detected cosmic-ray electrons and positrons with ... more Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 Using early observations from the William Herschel Telescope's Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), a collaborative team of over 50 astronomers, led by Dr. Marina Arnaudova of the University of ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking view of UGC 10043, a spiral galaxy located approximately 150 million light-years away in the Serpens constellation. This galaxy is seen ed ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 Deep beneath the Apennine mountains in Italy, an international team of scientists is unraveling profound questions in particle physics at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, home to the coldest temp ... more |
The Milky Way represents an outlier among similar galaxies Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But a trio of new studies raises questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of othe ... more Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 "For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way," said Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andres Bello in Chi ... more London, UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 A galaxy traveling at an extraordinary speed of 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has collided with Stephan's Quintet, creating a dramatic shockwave now observed in unprecedented detail by one of Ear ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 The elusive nature of dark matter, which makes up 85% of the universe's mass, could soon be revealed with the help of a nearby supernova and precise timing, according to researchers at the Universit ... more |
NASA's Swift marks 20th anniversary with improved pointing mode Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 After two decades in space, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great sci ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have unveiled stunning new visuals of the "Guitar Nebula," a unique cosmic structure resembling a glowing, flame-throwin ... more Paris, France (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 New research published in the journal 'Astronomy and Astrophysics' sheds light on how supermassive black holes - millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun - achieved their enormous size with ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 Astronomers have unveiled a rare glimpse of a newly formed planet, IRAS 04125+2902 b, just 3 million years old. This infant world, nestled in the Taurus Molecular Cloud 430 light-years away, is the ... more |
Available on Amazon Books Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 A research team led by Wun-Yi Chen and Ke-Jung Chen at the Institute of Astronomy, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) has unveiled critical insights into the physics of supernova shockwaves through advanced co ... more |
Young transiting planet reshapes theories of planetary formation Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have uncovered a striking discovery: a planet named TIDYE-1b, just 3 million years old - the planetary equivalent of a two-week-old baby. This ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early universe into the sprawling strands of galaxies we see today. A new study ... more Boston MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 In April 2019, a group of astronomers from around the globe stunned the world when they revealed the first image of a black hole - the monstrous accumulation of collapsed stars and gas that lets not ... more University Park PA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach f ... more |
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