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Data from NASA's Great Observatories Enable Detailed Study of Extremely Massive Young Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers have used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster.

8 Jan 2016

Scanning Probe Microwave Helps Measure Quantum Properties of Nanotubes

That is a question that researchers studying nanomaterials--objects with features at the sub-micrometer scales such as quantum dots, nanoparticles and nanotubes--are seeking to answer.

8 Jan 2016

Astronomers Detect Massive, Sprawling, Churning Galaxy Cluster

The early universe was a chaotic mess of gas and matter that only began to coalesce into distinct galaxies hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. It would take several billion more years for such galaxies to assemble into massive galaxy clusters — or so scientists had thought.

8 Jan 2016

Brightly Pulsating Racing Stars Could Help Detect Dwarf Galaxies Dominated By Dark Matter

A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter and explain ripples in the outer disk of the galaxy.

8 Jan 2016

Enhanced Processing Methods Enable Detailed Census of the Sky at Extreme Energies

Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of the sky yet made at extreme energies.

8 Jan 2016

New Way to Affect Dynamical Nonlocality in Nanoscale Quantum Circuits

Researchers at the MESA+ research institute at the University of Twente have identified a new fundamental quantum mechanical property of electrical currents in nanoscale quantum circuits.

8 Jan 2016

Kavli IPMU and ISM Enter MOU to Drive Development of Statistical Computational Cosmology

Scientific research into the origin of the universe has been enhanced through a new partnership between the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) and The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM).

7 Jan 2016

Evolution of Electric Current in Fusion Plasma Captured Without Using Solenoid

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

7 Jan 2016

NuSTAR Captures Best High-Energy X-Ray View Yet of Andromeda Galaxy

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. The space mission has observed 40 "X-ray binaries" -- intense sources of X-rays comprised of a black hole or neutron star that feeds off a stellar companion.

7 Jan 2016

Bow Shocks in Space Prove Existence of Fast Moving Stars

Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

7 Jan 2016

Black Hole Blast Influences Evolution of Galaxy

A team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant black hole about 26 million light years from Earth.

7 Jan 2016

NIST Researchers Achieve More Precise Detection of Individual Particles of Light

Detecting individual particles of light just got a bit more precise--by 74 picoseconds to be exact--thanks to advances in materials by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers and their colleagues in fabricating superconducting nanowires.

6 Jan 2016

WSU Professor Awarded NSF Grant to Create 3D Map on Star Formation

Radio telescopes have provided scientists with incredible information about our own galaxy, as well as those around us. While researchers understand a great deal of galaxies far away, gaps remain in the knowledge about our own, the Milky Way – specifically, how global star formation works in our own backyard, and how many stars our galaxy is making per year.

6 Jan 2016

New Particle Accelerator Installed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

A new particle accelerator will further enhance the research landscape at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). It is to be employed to conduct research into potential applications of medical relevance.

6 Jan 2016