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Gamma-ray Telescope Ready for Prime Time

Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)

Known formally as the prototype Schwarzchild-Couder Telescope, the new telescope is a working, high-end test bed for technologies to be used in the Cherenkov Te...

Classic double-slit experiment in a new light

Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)

This new variant offers a deeper understanding of the electronic structure of solids. Writing in Science Advances, the research group have now presented their r...

Nearby supernova with jet cocoon provides insights on gamma-ray bursts

Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)

While the connection between GRBs and hypernovae has been well established, it is still unclear why some hypernovae do not have associated GRBs. Through the det...

High-speed supernova reveals earliest moments of a dying star

Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)

A relativistic jet is a very powerful phenomena which involves plasma jets shooting out of black holes at close to the speed of light, and can extend across mil...

Observations of a rare hypernova complete the picture of the death of the massive stars

Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)

An international group of astronomers has published a detailed study of the death of a high-mass star that produced a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and a hypernova, in ...

Using light to achieve computational logic

Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)

Computers need an upgrade. From smartwatches to data centers, all computers feature similar kinds of components, including processors and memory. These semicond...

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to resume operations

Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)

Shortly after noon EST on Jan. 8, software installed on the Wide Field Camera 3 detected that some voltage levels within the instrument were out of the predefin...

Innovative research uses remote radio telescopes to detect cosmic rays

Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)

The project is the first coupling of a particle detector with the MWA, located in Western Australia's Mid-West region about 800 km north of Perth, and will allo...

From volcanoes on Mars to scarps on Mercury - how places on other worlds get their names

Jan 16, 2019 (The Conversation)

The IAU's achievements during its first few decades include resolving contradictory sets of names given to features on the Moon and Mars by rival astronomers du...

New technique more precisely determines the ages of stars

Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)

Current star-dating techniques, based on assessments of stars in the prime or main sequence of their lives that have begun to die after exhausting their hydroge...

Astronomers find signatures of a 'messy' star that made its companion go supernova

Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)

These latter events can happen in binary star systems, where two stars attempt to share dominion. While the exploding star gives off lots of evidence about its ...

Next generation photonic memory devices are light-written, ultrafast and energy efficient

Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)

Ultra-short (femtosecond) light pulses allows data to be directly written in a magnetic memory in a fast and highly energy-efficient way. Moreover, as soon as t...

Physicists find new ways to manipulate light, paving way for quantum tech

Jan 14, 2019 (UPI)

The research, detailed in the journal Physical Review Letters, could pave the way for new quantum technologies and telecommunication systems. While experimentin...

Control over Russia's only space telescope lost

Jan 14, 2019 (Sputnik)

"We're trying to fix the problem [...], there are different communications systems; some of them work, some do not work. We still receive some signals. Such fai...

Russia loses control of only space telescope

Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)

The incident is the latest setback for Russia's debt-laden space industry, which in recent years has suffered the loss of spacecraft, satellites, and a failed m...

Team of telescopes finds X-ray engine inside mysterious supernova

Jan 14, 2019 (ESA)

The ATLAS telescope in Hawaii first spotted the phenomenon, since then named AT2018cow, on 16 June. Soon after that, astronomers all over the world were pointin...

Canada's CHIME detects second repeating FRB

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery of the extragalactic signal is among the first, eagerly awaited results from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a revolut...

Thousands of stars turning into crystals

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

Observations have revealed that dead remnants of stars like our Sun, called white dwarfs, have a core of solid oxygen and carbon due to a phase transition durin...

Probing the magnetar at the center of our galaxy

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

The new research provides clues that magnetars like this one, lying in close proximity to a black hole, could perhaps be linked to the source of "fast radio bur...

NRAO identifies 100,000 star factories in 74 galaxies across the universe

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

A vast, new research project with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), known as PHANGS-ALMA (Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Ga...