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Southern Constellation of Tucana Cluster Possesses Variety of Unsung Cosmic Beauties

It may be famous for hosting spectacular sights such as the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy and 47 Tucanae (heic1510), the second brightest globular cluster in the night sky, but the southern constellation of Tucana (The Toucan) also possesses a variety of unsung cosmic beauties.

7 Nov 2016

New Research Confirms Dynamics of Continuous Quantum Phase Transitions

New research conducted at the University of Chicago has confirmed a decades-old theory describing the dynamics of continuous phase transitions.

7 Nov 2016

New SPIRAL2 Particle Reactor Could Generate Immensely Powerful Particle Beams

The new SPIRAL2 particle accelerator at the French large heavy-ion accelerator GANIL (CNRS/CEA), inaugurated on November 3 in the presence of the French President François Hollande, will be able to produce immensely powerful particle beams, enabling scientists to push back the frontiers of knowledge.

4 Nov 2016

New Technique May Allow Large-Scale Atom Arrays for Quantum Computing

Atoms, photons, and other quantum particles are often capricious and finicky by nature; very rarely at a standstill, they often collide with others of their kind.

4 Nov 2016

ISU Researchers Reveal Existence of New Tetraneutron Structure

Iowa State University researchers have helped demonstrate the existence of a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist.

4 Nov 2016

Scientists Observe Pillar-Like Structures Within Carina Nebula Using MUSE Instrument

Spectacular new observations of vast pillar-like structures within the Carina Nebula have been made using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

3 Nov 2016

Smaller Galaxy Loses Nearly All Stars, Gas During Close Galactic Encounter with Larger Galaxy

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.

3 Nov 2016