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Astronomers Identify New Type of Energetic Explosion in Distant Galaxy

An international team of astronomers, including a University of Southampton expert, has discovered a new type of explosion in a distant galaxy.

15 Nov 2017

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Wave Mixing on an Artificial Atom

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Royal Holloway, University of London, have demonstrated an effect known as quantum wave mixing on an artificial atom.

15 Nov 2017

Astrophysicists Find First Observational Evidence of Contracting White Dwarf

Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and his colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf.

15 Nov 2017

UMD Astronomers Use New Powerful Robotic Telescope to See “First Light”

A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky -- an event astronomers refer to as "first light."

15 Nov 2017

NASA's Early Science Observations Offer Insights on Supermassive Black Holes and Distant Galaxies

Astronomers around the world will have immediate access to early data from specific science observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will be completed within the first five months of Webb's science operations.

14 Nov 2017

PPPL Awards Grierson and Greenough for Exceptional Achievements in Plasma Research

A breakthrough in the development of fusion diagnostics and the creative use of radio frequency waves to heat the plasma that fuels fusion reactions earned the 2017 outstanding research and engineering awards from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

14 Nov 2017