Scientists Report Details of the Gravity Probe-B Mission
In a series of seven papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement, a NASA/Stanford team reported the astronomical issues involved with the analysis of testing…
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H.E.S.S. II Telescope Starts Operation and Detects Its Very First Images
With a 28-meter mirror and a mass of almost 600 tons, the H.E.S.S. II telescope is up and running, detecting its very first images of…
Scientists Detected Exoplanetary System With Regularly Aligned Orbits Similar to Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
Newly Discovered Gamma-Ray Pulsar J1838-0537
By employing new optimal algorithms on their ATLAS computer cluster to help go through Fermi data, scientists from the Max Planck Institute discovered the 5,000…
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates Discovered at the Center of the Milky Way
Using radio telescopes, a team of scientists at Keio University has discovered several intermediate-mass black hole candidates, which are considered to be the “seeds” that…
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Headed to the Final Design Stage
With an estimated construction cost of $665M and a five-year build time, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) received approval from the National Science Board…
Hubble Spots the Earliest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen
While using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures and study very distant galaxies in the early universe, astronomers discovered a spiral galaxy that is…
Thermal Recoil Force Is Source of “Pioneer Anomaly”
Scientists at NASA gathered records and analyzed old Droppler data to see if they could definitively figure out the source of the deceleration of NASA’s…
Computer Simulation Shows Correlation of Gravitational Waves and Neutrino Signals
Scientists at Caltech believe a computer simulation will help researchers interpret the information that detectors collect about neutrinos and gravitational waves from supernovae and help…
Discovery Solves Decades Old Discrepancies
While studying dwarf galaxies, David Nicholls from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics discovered that that the energies of the electrons in the gas…
Dark Matter Filament in Galaxy Supercluster Directly Measured
A filament of dark matter, which works like the Universe’s backbone, and dictates where galaxies can form, was observed for the first time by astronomers…
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Study Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Set to launch in 2014, NASA is planning the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to study X-points or electron diffusion regions, places where the magnetic field of…
A Molecular Directional Dark Matter Detector Made From Gold and DNA
Scientists are working on a directional dark matter detector that will use strands of DNA and gold in order to detect the elusive non-baryonic matter….
New Light Shed on the Origins of Extreme Space Storms
Based on data from the Hinode satellite, a newly published study provides the first evidence of plasma upflows traveling at around 20 km per second…
NASA Data Reveals Significant Changes in Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
Gravitational Wave Detection
The hunt for gravitational waves continues to move forward as theoretical studies and enhancements to gravitational wave detectors help guide researchers. Astronomers have long relied…
Lonestar Supercomputer Helps Explore Dark Matter
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
