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Discovery of New Stellar Streams Indicate that Milky Way Pulls Stars from its Neighbors

Although majority of the stars in our sky possibly originated in the Milky Way, a number of them seem to have migrated to our galaxy from other galaxies.

12 Jan 2018

Astronomers Discover Whirlpool Motion of Swirling Gas in Earliest Galaxies

Astronomers have identified swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have been developed in the Universe.

12 Jan 2018

DES Scientists Announce Discovery of Stellar Streams and Small Galaxies

At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public release of their first three years of data.

11 Jan 2018

Supermassive Black Holes Prevent Star Formation in Some Smaller Galaxies

Scientists have discovered evidence that supermassive black holes prevent the formation of stars in some smaller galaxies.

11 Jan 2018

MSU Physicists Develop Magnetic Waveguide to Trap Neutrons

A team from Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU) together with their colleagues developed a magnetic waveguide able to sort neutrons with different spins and storethem different layers. The results of the study may help in study of electronic devices based on not charge of electrons but on their quantum state. The article was published in Physical Review B journal.

10 Jan 2018

Arresting Photon Loss in Transmission Channel Could Upgrade Quantum Networks

Griffith University researchers have overcome a significant difficulty in implementing a strange quantum effect for real applications.

8 Jan 2018

Realizing Quantum Hall Effect in Four Dimensions

Researchers exhibited a method to observe physical phenomena hypothesized to be present in higher dimensional systems, in equivalent real-world experiments.

8 Jan 2018