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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers 10th Circumbinary Planet

A team of astronomers including a San Francisco State University researcher has discovered a new planet orbiting a pair of stars, the 10th "circumbinary" planet discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission and a milestone for the 6-year-old spacecraft.

11 Aug 2015

Team of Engineers and Scientists Met for the First Time to Plan NASA's Mission to Europa

They're united by a lofty goal -- to investigate whether Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell. Last week, a team of scientists and engineers for NASA's planned mission to Europa met for the first time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to begin turning that goal into reality.

11 Aug 2015

MIT Researchers Propose New Design for Practical Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor

It's an old joke that many fusion scientists have grown tired of hearing: Practical nuclear fusion power plants are just 30 years away -- and always will be.

11 Aug 2015

GAMA Project Team Releases Measurements of Energy Output of Over 200 000 Galaxies at IAU general Assembly

An international team of astronomers studying more than 200 000 galaxies has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before. This represents the most comprehensive assessment of the energy output of the nearby Universe.

11 Aug 2015

High-Precision Optical Position Sensor Could Extend Quantum Feedback Control to Engineered Mechanical Devices

EPFL scientists have used feedback to cool the motion of a micron-sized glass string to near absolute zero. This required building a sensor capable of resolving the smallest vibration allowed by quantum mechanics.

11 Aug 2015

University of Minnesota Physicists to Present First Results from NOvA Experiment

University of Minnesota physicists Professor Greg Pawloski and Dr. Jianming Bian will present the first results from the NOvA experiment at a Special Elementary Particle Physics seminar Wednesday, August 12, at 3:00 PM in Room 110 Physics and Nanotechnology Building.

10 Aug 2015

NOvA Scientists Observe Neutrino Oscillations for the First Time

Scientists on the NOvA experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making great progress toward its goal of a major leap in our understanding of these ghostly particles.

10 Aug 2015

Yale University Astronomer Helps Untangle Cosmic Knots of Stars within Giant, Elliptical Galaxies

A Yale University astronomer has helped untangle the cosmic knots of stars at the center of giant, elliptical galaxies.

7 Aug 2015

Pulsar Study Helps Astronomers Understand Gravitational Behavior Across Cosmos

Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, appears reassuringly constant across the Universe, according to a decades-long study of a distant pulsar. This research helps to answer a long-standing question in cosmology: Is the force of gravity the same everywhere and at all times? The answer, so far, appears to be yes.

7 Aug 2015

Physicists Use Carbon Nanotubes to Enhance Efficiency of Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration

An international team of physicists has used carbon nanotubes to enhance the efficiency of laser-driven particle acceleration. This significant advance brings compact sources of ionizing radiation for medical purposes closer to reality.

7 Aug 2015

Advanced Petawatt Laser Generates High-Energy Quantum Beams

The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, has succeeded to reinforce the Petawatt [3] laser "LFEX" to deliver up to 2,000 trillion watts in the duration of one trillionth of one second (this corresponds to 1000 times the integrated electric power consumed in the world).

7 Aug 2015

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reveals Black Hole and Newborn Stars are Parts of Self-Regulating Cycle

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming along the jets of active black holes found in the centers of giant elliptical galaxies.

7 Aug 2015

ESO's Very Large Telescope Captures Best View of Little-Known Southern Owl Nebula

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This is the best view of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

6 Aug 2015

Large Disk Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Days of the Universe

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.

6 Aug 2015

Cosmic Web Imager Provides Evidence for Cold-Flow Model of Galaxy Formation

A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away--a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.

6 Aug 2015

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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers 10th Circumbinary Planet

Team of Engineers and Scientists Met for the First Time to Plan NASA's Mission to Europa

MIT Researchers Propose New Design for Practical Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor

GAMA Project Team Releases Measurements of Energy Output of Over 200 000 Galaxies at IAU general Assembly

High-Precision Optical Position Sensor Could Extend Quantum Feedback Control to Engineered Mechanical Devices

University of Minnesota Physicists to Present First Results from NOvA Experiment

NOvA Scientists Observe Neutrino Oscillations for the First Time

Yale University Astronomer Helps Untangle Cosmic Knots of Stars within Giant, Elliptical Galaxies

Pulsar Study Helps Astronomers Understand Gravitational Behavior Across Cosmos

Physicists Use Carbon Nanotubes to Enhance Efficiency of Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration

Advanced Petawatt Laser Generates High-Energy Quantum Beams

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reveals Black Hole and Newborn Stars are Parts of Self-Regulating Cycle

ESO's Very Large Telescope Captures Best View of Little-Known Southern Owl Nebula

Large Disk Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Days of the Universe

Cosmic Web Imager Provides Evidence for Cold-Flow Model of Galaxy Formation

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