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Wasteful galaxies launch heavy elements into surrounding halos and deep space

Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)

Galaxies "waste" large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and ...

Observational distance record promises new tool for studying galaxies

Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have used new capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to open a whole new realm of research into how...

Brand-new detector to reveal the interiors of stars

Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)

The most intense source of gamma radiation constructed to date will soon become operational at the ELI Nuclear Physics research facility. It will be possible to...

Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy

Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion...

Elliptical galaxies not formed by merging

Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)

It all starts from a problem with dust: galaxies with the highest rates of star formation are also the "dustiest", because the violent process of star formation...

Meta-lens sees smaller than a wavelength of light

Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)

Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image. That's why high-power microscopes are ...

The Galaxy Is Under Pressure to Make Stars

Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new study led by Canadian astronomers provides unprecedented insights into the birth of stars. Using observations from the Green Bank Telescope in West Virgin...

Blowing bubbles in the Milky Way's magnetic field

Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of astronomers has discovered a possible connection between the magnetic fields of supernova remnants and that of our own Milky Way Galaxy...

Measuring the Milky Way: 1 massive problem, 1 new solution

Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)

It is a galactic challenge, to be sure, but Gwendolyn Eadie is getting closer to an accurate answer to a question that has defined her early career in astrophys...

The Little Fox and the Giant Stars

Jun 01, 2016 (JPL)

New stars are the lifeblood of our galaxy, and there is enough material revealed by this Herschel infrared image to build stars for millions of years to come. S...

Beating the limits of the light microscope, one photon at a time

May 31, 2016 (SPX)

The world's most advanced light microscopes allow us to see single molecules, proteins, viruses and other very small biological structures. But even the best mi...

Engineers discover a new gatekeeper for light

May 30, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a device that is selectively transparent to various wavelengths of light at one moment, and opaque to them the next, following a minute adjustment. Such...

Astronomers Confirm Faintest Early-Universe Galaxy Ever Seen

May 26, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe gala...

A Young Mammoth Cluster of Galaxies Sighted in the Early Universe

May 26, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have uncovered evidence for a vast collection of young galaxies 12 billion light years away. The newly discovered "proto-cluster" of galaxies, obser...

Hunting for Dark Matter's Hidden Valley

May 25, 2016 (SPX)

Kathryn Zurek realized a decade ago that we may be searching in the wrong places for clues to one of the universe's greatest unsolved mysteries: dark matter. De...

OU astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220

May 25, 2016 (SPX)

A University of Oklahoma team has detected for the first time the most luminous gamma-ray emission from a galaxy--the merging galaxy Arp 220 is the nearest ultr...

Closing in on the elusive rotational-vibrational CH5+ spectra

May 25, 2016 (SPX)

Protonated methane, a.k.a. CH5+, is a highly unusual molecule that scientists and astronomers suspect may be found within the interstellar medium where stars an...

The dark side of the fluffiest galaxies

May 24, 2016 (SPX)

Galaxies, in all their forms from spirals to ellipticals from giants to dwarfs have been widely studied over the past Century. To the surprise of the scientific...

Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen

May 24, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe gala...

Supernova Reserve Fuel Tank Clue to Big Parents

May 20, 2016 (SPX)

Some supernovae have a reserve tank of radioactive fuel that cuts in and powers their explosions for three times longer than astronomers had previously thought....