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New Observations of Tiny Galaxy Shed Light on Origin of Heavy Elements

The lightest few elements in the periodic table formed minutes after the Big Bang. Heavier chemical elements are created by stars, either from nuclear fusion in their interiors or in catastrophic explosions. However, scientists have disagreed for nearly 60 years about how the heaviest elements, such as gold and lead, are manufactured. New observations of a tiny galaxy discovered last year show that these heavy elements are likely left over from rare collisions between two neutron stars. The work is published by Nature.

22 Mar 2016

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Captures Brilliant Flash of Exploding Star's Shock Wave

NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave--what astronomers call the "shock breakout" of a supernova--for the first time in visible light wavelengths.

22 Mar 2016

Astronomers Discover Fastest Ever Ultraviolet-Wavelength Winds from Quasar

The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole by a research team that includes a Penn State University astronomer. "This new ultrafast wind surprised us when it appeared at ultraviolet wavelengths, indicating it is racing away from the ravenous black hole at unprecedented speeds -- almost like a bat out of Hell," said William Nielsen (Niel) Brandt, the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and a professor of physics at Penn State, a member of the research team.

22 Mar 2016

Researchers Reveal Source of Galactic Cosmic Radiation with Petaelectronvolt Energies for First Time

A team of international researchers including members of the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) at FAU has revealed a source of galactic cosmic radiation with petaelectronvolt energies for the first time: the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Their findings are based on a detailed analysis of the latest data from the telescopes in the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in Namibia. Researchers have been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very-high-energy gamma rays using these telescopes – the most sensitive of their kind – for over 10 years. The results were published in the journal Nature on 16 March 2016.

22 Mar 2016

Breakthrough Results Help Improve Control of Light Filaments and Their Applications

Researchers at UPM have revealed the underlying order of chaos by observing very long and intense laser light beams and ionized matter in the so-called “light filaments”.

21 Mar 2016

Astronomers Discover New Star with Unprecedented Variation Period

The Lomonosov Moscow State University astronomers who created a global network of robotelescopes MASTER detected that a bright star TYC 2505-672-1 has actually faded significantly. That finding induced new questions: so, the scientists assume that TYC 2505-672-1 is actually a double star system, though a nature of its companion remains unknown.

21 Mar 2016

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New Observations of Tiny Galaxy Shed Light on Origin of Heavy Elements

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Captures Brilliant Flash of Exploding Star's Shock Wave

Astronomers Discover Fastest Ever Ultraviolet-Wavelength Winds from Quasar

Researchers Reveal Source of Galactic Cosmic Radiation with Petaelectronvolt Energies for First Time

Breakthrough Results Help Improve Control of Light Filaments and Their Applications

Astronomers Discover New Star with Unprecedented Variation Period

New Discovery Opens Possibility of Using Movement of Weyl Fermions in Future Electronics

Breakthrough Study Takes Closer Look at Rydberg Physics

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New Hubble Observations Raise Many Questions About Massive Star Formation

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