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Winner of European Astronomy Journalism Prize to Travel to Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

European astronomy journalists can win a trip to the ESO telescope facilities in Chile with the launch of the European Astronomy Journalism Prize 2014.

20 Aug 2014

Queen’s University Astrophysics Research Centre and NASA Partner to Investigate ‘Solar Flares’

A major new collaboration between the Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC) at Queen’s University Belfast and American space agency NASA is set to investigate ‘solar flares’ and their potential to cause disruption here on Earth.

20 Aug 2014

Strange Baryons Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are being produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a facility that is dedicated to studying nuclear physics.

20 Aug 2014

Quantum State Can Turn About a Point Like a Ballerina

When a ballerina pirouettes, they balance on the very tip of the toes of one foot. This allows them to spin freely.

20 Aug 2014

New ‘Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory’ Survey Launched

A new survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) has been launched that will greatly expand our understanding of galaxies, including the Milky Way, by charting the internal structure and composition of an unprecedented sample of 10,000 galaxies.

19 Aug 2014

Dark Energy Survey Begins Second Year

On Aug. 15, with its successful first season behind it, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration began its second year of mapping the southern sky in unprecedented detail.

19 Aug 2014

Rhythmic Pulsations from Rare Type of Midsize Black Hole Uncovered

Astronomers have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare type of black hole 12 million light-years away by sifting through archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite.

19 Aug 2014

New Research Improves Quantum Coherence Time Using Cavity Protection Effect

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have successfully improved the stability of a quantum system using a cavity protection effect.

By Alexander Chilton 18 Aug 2014

Astronomers Accurately Measure Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

The universe has so many black holes that it's impossible to count them all. There may be 100 million of these intriguing astral objects in our galaxy alone. Nearly all black holes fall into one of two classes: big, and colossal.

18 Aug 2014

Scientists Analyze Rare, Microscopic Interstellar Dust Particles

Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are among the samples collected by scientists who have been studying the payload from NASA's Stardust spacecraft since its return to Earth in 2006. If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust.

18 Aug 2014

New Kinds of Galileon-Like Theories Can Be Created in Non-Relativistic Systems

There has been much recent interest, especially among cosmologists, in theories known as galileons. Galileons are an interesting and novel, though still hypothetical, class of effective scalar fields which are extremely universal and have attracted much recent attention. They arise generically in describing the short distance behavior of the new degrees of freedom introduced during the process of modifying gravity, and in describing the dynamics of extra dimensional brane worlds.

18 Aug 2014

Scientists Rule Out One Possible Cause of Closest Supernova

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory offer a glimpse into the environment of a star before it exploded earlier this year, and insight into what triggered one of the closest supernovas witnessed in decades.

18 Aug 2014

Novel Technique to Record Quantum Mechanical Behavior of an Electron Within a Nanoscale Defect

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Konstanz, Germany, have developed a technique to record the quantum mechanical behavior of an individual electron contained within a nanoscale defect in diamond. Their technique uses ultrafast pulses of laser light both to control the defect’s entire quantum state and observe how that single electron state changes over time.

18 Aug 2014

Rosetta Captures Diversity of Surface Structures on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Nucleus

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus. It was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on August 7, 2014. At the time, the spacecraft was 65 miles (104 kilometers) away from the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer) nucleus.

18 Aug 2014

Researchers at Berkeley Lab Analyze Seven Grains of Possible Interstellar Dust

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks, which likely originated from beyond our solar system, are more complex in composition and structure than previously imagined.

18 Aug 2014

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Winner of European Astronomy Journalism Prize to Travel to Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

Queen’s University Astrophysics Research Centre and NASA Partner to Investigate ‘Solar Flares’

Strange Baryons Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Quantum State Can Turn About a Point Like a Ballerina

New ‘Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory’ Survey Launched

Dark Energy Survey Begins Second Year

Rhythmic Pulsations from Rare Type of Midsize Black Hole Uncovered

New Research Improves Quantum Coherence Time Using Cavity Protection Effect

Astronomers Accurately Measure Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

Scientists Analyze Rare, Microscopic Interstellar Dust Particles

New Kinds of Galileon-Like Theories Can Be Created in Non-Relativistic Systems

Scientists Rule Out One Possible Cause of Closest Supernova

Novel Technique to Record Quantum Mechanical Behavior of an Electron Within a Nanoscale Defect

Rosetta Captures Diversity of Surface Structures on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Nucleus

Researchers at Berkeley Lab Analyze Seven Grains of Possible Interstellar Dust

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