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ALMA Views Material Streaming Away From Newborn Star

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon monoxide molecules in an object called Herbig-Haro 46/47 they have discovered that its jets are even more energetic than previously thought.

21 Aug 2013

Some Free-Floating Planets May Have Formed On Their Own

Tiny, round, cold clouds in space have all the right characteristics to form planets with no parent star. New observations, made with Chalmers University of Technology telescopes, show that not all free-floating planets were thrown out of existing planetary systems. They can also be born free.

20 Aug 2013

Perimeter Institute Announces Schedule for BrainSTEM Festival

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the schedule for BrainSTEM: Your Future Is Now Festival.

20 Aug 2013

American Astronomical Society Honors Cornell Professor with 2013 Dirk Brouwer Award

Citing research that has transformed our scientific view of the heavens, the American Astronomical Society (Division of Dynamical Astronomy) will give Joseph A. Burns, Ph.D. ’66, the Irving P. Church Professor of Engineering and professor of astronomy, the prestigious 2013 Dirk Brouwer Award. The presentation will take place in Philadelphia in May 2014.

19 Aug 2013

Swinburne Improves University Ranking Within Australia in the Field of Physics

For the second consecutive year, Swinburne University of Technology has been ranked as one of the world's top 400 universities by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

19 Aug 2013

Mature-Looking Galaxies May Have Existed Much Earlier Than Previously Known

Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by doctoral candidate BoMee Lee and her advisor Mauro Giavalisco at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the universe was only about 2.5 billion years old, or 11.5 billion years ago. “Finding them this far back in time is a significant discovery,” says lead author Lee.

17 Aug 2013

Hyper-Suprime Cam Delivers Stunning Images of Andromeda Galaxy

Stunning images of the Andromeda Galaxy are among the first to emerge from a new wide-field camera installed on the enormous Subaru Telescope atop the Hawaiian mountain Mauna Kea. The camera, called the Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC), is the result of an international collaboration between Princeton University astrophysicists and Japanese and Taiwanese scientists.

17 Aug 2013

Attempts to Fully Recover Kepler Spacecraft Ends after Months of Analysis

Following months of analysis and testing, the Kepler Space Telescope team is ending its attempts to restore the spacecraft to full working order, and now is considering what new science research it can carry out in its current condition.

17 Aug 2013

CERN Commences Bookings for Open Days Visits of Underground Facilities

From today, CERN will be taking bookings for visits of its underground facilities during the Open Days. From 9am to 8pm on 28 and 29 September, members of the public will have a rare opportunity to visit one of CERN's underground sites.

17 Aug 2013

NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Have Already Entered Interstellar Space

A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space. The model described in the paper is new and different from other models used so far to explain the data the spacecraft has been sending back from more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) away from our sun.

17 Aug 2013