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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...

LOFAR Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets of Solar Storms

February 20, 2019
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Helsinki, Finland — An international team of scientists led by a researcher from Trinity College Dublin and University of Helsinki announced a major discovery on the very nature of solar storms in...

Spacecraft Measurements Reveal Mechanism of Solar Wind Heating

February 14, 2019
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London, UK — Queen Mary University of London has led a study which describes the first direct measurement of how energy is transferred from the chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the particles...

Insulating Crust Kept Cryomagma Liquid for Millions of Years on Nearby Dwarf Planet

February 13, 2019
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Austin, TX — A recent NASA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres found brilliant, white spots of salts on its surface. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with NASA’s...

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets

January 25, 2019
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Berkeley, CA — Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, binging on matter with such ferocity that not even light can escape once it’s swallowed up. Less understood, though, is...

Making Hubble’s Deepest Images Even Deeper

January 24, 2019
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain — To produce the deepest image of the Universe from space a group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) led by Alejandro S. Borlaff used original...

Research Team Discovers New Way Supermassive Black Holes are ‘Fed’

January 14, 2019
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Tel Aviv, Israel — Supermassive black holes weigh millions to billions times more than our sun and lie at the center of most galaxies. A supermassive black hole several million times the mass of the...

Long-Duration Space Missions Have Lasting Effects on Spinal Muscles

January 11, 2019
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South Holland, Netherlands — Astronauts who spend several months on the International Space Station have significant reductions in the size and density of paraspinal muscles of the trunk after returning...

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