New Aluminum Batteries Increase the Range of UUVs Tenfold
New batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles, giving UUVs a tenfold increase in range over traditional lithium-ion batteries used for the same…
Astronomers Reveal Detailed Relationships Between Gas and Dust in Molecular Clouds
New research on the molecular cloud complex in Orion-B reveals the detailed relationships between the gas and dust, and quantifies how the spatially varying intensities…
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope Views Glowing Cloud of Gas Sharpless 2-54
A new image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) captures the glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula, and the Omega…
Green Bank Ammonia Survey Peers Deep into the Stellar Nursery of the Orion Nebula
In a newly published study, astronomers present an overview of the first data release (DR1) and first-look science from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey (GAS)….
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views Northern Summer on Titan
This newly released Cassini image shows bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas…
ALMA Discovers a Weak and Wildly Disorganized Magnetic Field Near a Protostar
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has discovered a surprisingly weak and wildly disorganized magnetic field very near a newly…
Astronomers Provide New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs
Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers reveal…
Researchers Simulate the Conditions Around Black Holes Using a Specially Designed Water Bath
By successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath, a team of astronomers has made a significant leap forward in…
SOFIA Investigates Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…
MIT Engineers Develop Programmable Nanophotonic Processor
A team of engineers propose a new architecture for a fully optical neural network that, in principle, could offer an enhancement in computational speed and…
WebKnossos: An Annotation Tool for 3D Electron Microscopic Data
Researchers have developed reconstruction software that allows them to fly through the brain tissue at unprecedented speed, gaining an about 10-fold speedup for data analysis…
Astronomers Reveal That Jupiter is the Oldest Planet in Our Solar System
New research from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reveals that Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system. By looking at tungsten and molybdenum…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views Iapetus
This newly released Cassini image shows Iapetus, the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn. Iapetus is a world of contrast, with light and dark regions fitting…
ALMA Reveals the True Shape of the Boomerang Nebula
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers view the Boomerang Nebula – a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. This Picture of Week…
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Views Pongal Catena on Ceres
This newly released image from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft shows the northeastern rim of Urvara Crater on Ceres, helping to shed light on the nature of…
Hubble Image of the Week – White Dwarf Stein 2051 B
Hubble observed the nearby white dwarf star Stein 2051 B as it passed in front of a background star. During the close alignment, the white…
Curiosity Reveals Evidence of Diverse Environments on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has revealed a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks from the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars,…
The Art of Exoplanets – How Artists Use Scientific Data to Imagine Exoplanets
How artists use scientific data to visualize distant exoplanets and other astrophysical phenomena that you can’t see. The moon hanging in the night sky sent…