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Supernova Remnants Reveal Age of X-ray Binary System

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine Circinus X-1 -- an X-ray binary -- is the youngest of this class of astronomical objects found to date.

5 Dec 2013

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Heads Toward Dwarf Planet Ceres

It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card.

5 Dec 2013

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures High-resolution Images of Saturn’s Hexagonal Jet Stream

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole.

5 Dec 2013

Young Star in the Milky Way Galaxy has an Explosive Growth

A star is formed when a large cloud of gas and dust condenses and eventually becomes so dense that it collapses into a ball of gas, where the pressure heats the matter, creating a glowing gas ball – a star is born. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, shows that a young, newly formed star in the Milky Way had such an explosive growth, that it was initially about 100 times brighter than it is now. The results are published in the scientific journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters.

4 Dec 2013

Two Supermassive Black Holes Dance in a Gravitationally Entwined Tango

Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy, circling each other like dance partners. The incredibly rare sighting was made with the help of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

4 Dec 2013

Quantum Entanglement May be Spookier than Einstein Perceived

Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier than Einstein perceived.

4 Dec 2013

Researchers Confirm Evidence of 28 Events Involving High-Energy Neutrinos From Outside the Galaxy

After years of self-motivated particle and astrophysical research with IceCube, a neutrino-detecting telescope sealed in the ice of Antartica, researchers recently conﬁrmed evidence of 28 events involving high-energy neutrinos from outside the galaxy.

4 Dec 2013

Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Aluminum Stronger When in the Form of Nanomatryushkas

Humble aluminum’s plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, according to new research by Rice University scientists.

4 Dec 2013

Photon Pairs Produced Through Four-Wave Mixing in Cold Atomic Vapour

Quantum technologies for communication and computation can play on the strengths of different systems: photons are good for zipping information around, atoms are good for storage. CQT researchers have demonstrated a technique for producing entangled photon pairs that promises to help interface the two.

3 Dec 2013

IQC to Build Compact Prototype Quantum Key Distribution Receiver for Low-Cost Microsatellite Mission

Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) researcher Dr. Thomas Jennewein and Dr. Vadim Makarov have received a $600,000 contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to design and build a compact prototype quantum key distribution receiver (QKDR) suitable for a low-cost microsatellite mission.

3 Dec 2013

ESA Selects ‘Hot and Energetic Universe’ and ‘The Gravitational Universe’ as Topics for Next Large Missions

At its meeting in Paris on November 28, the Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency ESA opted for two topics in which the Max Planck Institutes for Extraterrestrial Physics and for Gravitational Physics are closely involved: “The hot and energetic universe” and “The gravitational universe” with the projects Athena and eLISA.

3 Dec 2013

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Supernova Remnants Reveal Age of X-ray Binary System

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Heads Toward Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures High-resolution Images of Saturn’s Hexagonal Jet Stream

Young Star in the Milky Way Galaxy has an Explosive Growth

Two Supermassive Black Holes Dance in a Gravitationally Entwined Tango

Quantum Entanglement May be Spookier than Einstein Perceived

Researchers Confirm Evidence of 28 Events Involving High-Energy Neutrinos From Outside the Galaxy

Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Aluminum Stronger When in the Form of Nanomatryushkas

Photon Pairs Produced Through Four-Wave Mixing in Cold Atomic Vapour

IQC to Build Compact Prototype Quantum Key Distribution Receiver for Low-Cost Microsatellite Mission

ESA Selects ‘Hot and Energetic Universe’ and ‘The Gravitational Universe’ as Topics for Next Large Missions

Heat Deep Within a Neutron Star Never Makes it to the Surface

Innovative Research on Cavity Optomechanics and Optical Frequency Combs Wins ICO Prize 2013

New Lattice Model Realizes Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Behaviour

UofT Quantum Materials Researcher Wins 2013 Polanyi Prize

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