Scientists Discover New Stage in Evolution of Young Solar Systems
Early in 2017, Assistant Professor Yoko Oya gave graduate student Yuki Okoda some recent complex data on a nearby star with which she could begin…
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Astronomers Confirm 44 Planets in Solar Systems Beyond Our Own
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar surveys, which is…
Astronomers Use New Data to Create Extraordinary Dark Matter Map
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter…
Astronomers Directly Observe Electrons Bouncing Across Earth’s Magnetosphere
The shower of electrons bouncing across Earth’s magnetosphere – commonly known as the Northern Lights – has been directly observed for the first time by…
Violent Helium Reaction Triggers Supernova Explosion
A new study reveals evidence that the brightest stellar explosions in our universe could be triggered by the helium nuclear explosion at the surface of…
White Matter Changes Allow Older People to Learn New Visual Tasks
New research from Brown University shows that older people can learn a visual task just as well as younger ones, revealing that a significant change…
Astronomers Discover a Drastic Chemical Change Occurring in Birth of a Planetary System
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk around young protostar L1527. The international…
ALMA Observations Show Unique Chemical Composition Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of scientists captured a detailed image of high-density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at…
Scientists Teleport Photonic Qubits with Extreme Reliability
By using hybrid technology that combines two conceptually different approaches, scientists have managed to teleport photonic qubits with extreme reliability. By means of the quantum-mechanical…