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Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected, Almost Too Massive to Exist

September 18, 2019
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Green Bank, WV — Neutron stars – the compressed remains of massive stars gone supernova – are the densest “normal” objects in the known universe. (Black holes are technically...

‘Ringing’ Black Hole Validates Einstein’s General Relativity 10 Years Ahead of Schedule

September 16, 2019
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Stony Brook, NY — For the first time, astrophysicists have heard a black hole ringing like a bell. By reanalyzing the first black hole merger ever detected, the astrophysicists measured the gravitational...

Study Reveals ‘Radical’ Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

September 4, 2019
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Berkeley, CA — A team of scientists has discovered a new possible pathway toward forming carbon structures in space using a specialized chemical exploration technique at the Department of Energy’s...

Virtual ‘Universe Machine’ Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution

August 12, 2019
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Tucson, AZ — How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The science behind galaxy formation has remained a puzzle for decades, but a University...

Astronomers Map Vast Void in Our Cosmic Neighborhood

July 23, 2019
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Honolulu, Hawaii — An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and an international team published a new study that reveals more of the vast cosmic structure surrounding our...

Research Reveals the Early Days of the Milky Way

July 23, 2019
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain — The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very rapid rate, forming the...

Astronauts Less Likely to Faint on Earth If They Exercise in Space; Findings May Help Others with Fainting Issues

July 19, 2019
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Dallas, TX — Nearly 50 years after man’s first steps on the moon, researchers have discovered a way that may help astronauts spending prolonged time in space come back to Earth on more stable...

Speeding up Science on Near-Earth Asteroids

July 17, 2019
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Pullman, WA — Modelling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used...

Interstellar Iron Isn’t Missing, It’s Just Hiding in Plain Sight

July 10, 2019
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Tempe, AZ — Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements such as hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. Iron is most...

Cool Halo Gas Caught Spinning like Galactic Disks

June 19, 2019
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Maunakea, Hawaii — A group of astronomers led by Crystal Martin and Stephanie Ho of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has discovered a dizzying cosmic choreography among typical star-forming...

Uncovering the Hidden History of a Giant Asteroid

June 12, 2019
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Tokyo, Japan — A massive ‘hit-and-run’ collision profoundly impacted the evolutionary history of Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. This finding, by a team of researchers...

The ‘Forbidden’ Planet Has Been Found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

May 29, 2019
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Coventry, UK — An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert, by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick...

Researchers Wonder If Ancient Supernovae Prompted Human Ancestors to Walk Upright

May 29, 2019
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Lawrence, KS — Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs, eventually resulting in homo sapiens with hands free to build cathedrals, design rockets and snap iPhone selfies? A...

Three Exocomets Discovered Around the Star Beta Pictoris

May 22, 2019
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Innsbruck, Austria — Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris outside our solar system were discovered in data from...

Scientists from NUST MISIS Create Super-Fast Robot Microscope to Search for Dark Matter

April 11, 2019
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Moscow, Russia — Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and...

International Team Captures First Image of a Black Hole

April 10, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of...

Ultra-Sharp Images Make Old Stars Look Absolutely Marvelous

March 26, 2019
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Hilo, HI — 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...

Discovering Bonus Science with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

March 8, 2019
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Greenbelt, MD — The four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft are flying out of their element. The spacecraft have just completed a short detour from their routine science — looking at processes...

‘Goldilocks’ Stars may be ‘Just Right’ for Finding Habitable Worlds

March 8, 2019
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Greenbelt, MD — Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of which is that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone to consider. To...

Stars Exploding as Supernovae Lose Their Mass to Companion Stars During Their Lives

March 7, 2019
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Kyoto, Japan — Stars over eight times more massive than the Sun end their lives in supernovae explosions. The composition of the star influences what happens during the explosion. A considerable...

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