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Homing in on source of cosmic radio bursts

Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have pinpointed for the first time the home galaxy of a fast radio burst, moving scientists a step closer to detecting what causes these powerful bu...

Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar

Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)

Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be coming from outside our galaxy, which mea...

Gemini: exploring a fast radio burst in 3 dimensions

Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), sudden rapid explosions of energy from space, have challenged astronomers since their discovery in 2007. Typically lasting only a few ...

Researchers get first look at new, extremely rare galaxy

Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)

Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers ...

NASA's Webb Telescope to resume vibration testing in January

Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)

Vibration tests are one of the many tests that spacecraft and instruments endure to ensure they are fit for spaceflight. During routine testing of NASA's James ...

Hubble gazes at a cosmic megamaser

Jan 01, 2017 (SPX)

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most - it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times br...

James Webb Space Telescope observatory is assembled

Dec 29, 2016 (ESA)

With less than two years remaining before its scheduled launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has passed several major milestones, including the complet...

Astrophotography as a gateway to science

Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)

Non-science students enrolled in astrophotography classes created by scientists at the University of California, Riverside reported a better understanding of ho...

Hubble spots megamaser

Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)

Megamasers are galaxies that act like one big laser that emits microwave radiation instead of visible light. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted IRAS 1...

Russian physicists measure the loss of dark matter since the birth of the universe

Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from MIPT, the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have discovered that t...

Dark matter has decreased since the Big Bang: Study

Dec 28, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists in Russia have calculated the rate of dark matter decay, explaining the decline of dark matter in the universe since the Big Bang. Cosmologists and a...

New equipment funded for Joint Russian-German Spektrum-RG Observatory

Dec 28, 2016 (Sputnik)

Replacing electronic equipment for the future Spektrum-RG observatory due to the new estimates of radiation levels cost German participants of this project abou...

Feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a rigorous new method for...

Moth's Eye Inspires Critical Component on SOFIA's Newest Instrument

Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)

Nature, and more particularly a moth's eye, inspired the technology that allows a new NASA-developed camera to create images of astronomical objects with far gr...

Preparing JWST for launch

Dec 23, 2016 (ESA)

In the second half of 2016, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was readied for an intensive series of environmental tests, an essential step in ensuring that...

Festive nebulae light up Milky Way Galaxy satellite

Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)

The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC...

Avalanche statistics suggest Tabby's star is near a continuous phase transition

Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)

In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the passing of an orbiting planet...

ESO: ALMA's Ability to Search for Water in the Universe Improved

Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possible...

VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars

Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky ...

Texas A and M-Led Study Helps Prove Galaxy Evolution Theory

Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)

Everyone has a backstory, even our own Milky Way galaxy. And much like social media, the picture is not always as pretty as it appears on the current surface, s...