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ALMA returns to Boomerang Nebula:Companion star provides chilling power of 'Coldest Object in the Universe'
ALMA Boomerang Nebula Companion star chilling power Coldest Object in the Universe
2017/7/21
An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos — the Boomerang Nebula. How this star was able to create an environment strikingly colder...
RIT study suggests dying stars give newborn black holes a swift kick
RIT study dying stars newborn black holes swift kick
2017/7/21
New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.
Rochester Institute of Technology res...
Statement from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova regarding news that researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves ...
Gravitational waves carry information about their origins and about the nature of gravity that cannot otherwise be obtained. Physicists on the LIGO and Virgo teams concluded that, as with LIGO’s first...
RIT's black hole computer simulations help ID third gravitational wave LSC announces newest findings
RIT black hole computer simulations ID third gravitational wave LSC announces
2017/7/21
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers continue to make significant contributions to gravitational wave astronomy, with the third detection of gravitational waves and a new black hole 49 times ...
World’s most sensitive dark matter detector releases first results
World most sensitive dark matter detector releases
2017/7/20
Scientists behind XENON1T, the largest dark matter experiment of its kind ever built, are encouraged by early results, describing them as the best so far in the search for dark matter.Dark matter is o...
Gemini Tracks Distant Star Cluster with Adaptive Optics
Gemini Distant Star Cluster Adaptive Optics
2017/7/20
We present a proper motion measurement for the halo globular cluster Pyxis, using HST/ACS data as the first epoch, and GeMS/GSAOI Adaptive Optics data as the second, separated by a baseline of ～ 5 yea...
Peering into Black Holes Using an Earth-sized Telescope
Peering Black Holes Earth-sized Telescope
2017/4/27
Turning the Earth into one giant telescope by coordinating observations from instruments arrayed around the world, teams of radio astronomers are aiming their telescopes for the next 10 days at the th...
Help astronomers find elusive muons disguised as gamma rays
astronomers muons disguised gamma rays
2017/3/30
A new citizen science project, led by astronomers at the University of Minnesota, is asking for help from the public to identify and categorize hundreds of thousands of ring patterns within images pro...
A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ever created, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold dark matter — sluggish particles that comprise the bulk ...
New Caltech Instrument Poised to Image the Cosmic Web
New Caltech Instrument Poised Image Cosmic Web
2017/2/16
An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe shipped early this morning, Jan. 12, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, where it will be integrated into the W. M. K...
冰穹A具测宇宙特高频辐射最佳条件
冰穹A 宇宙 特高频辐射
2016/12/15
英国《自然·天文学》2016年12月12日在线发表的一篇论文报告称，位于南极洲的冰穹A （Dome A）天文台，具有测量宇宙特高频辐射的最佳条件。该研究表明，冰穹A站点提供了一个“绝无仅有”的在地球上开展太赫兹天文学观测的机会。与空间望远镜及基于航天器的望远镜相比，冰穹A站点可以支持更大规模的观测设备，成本较低且更灵活。在天文学领域，太赫兹（一万亿赫兹）辐射主要用于研究包含恒星...
"Cosmic Whistle" Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch
Cosmic Whistle Surprisingly Energetic Punch
2016/11/29
Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious "cosmic whistles" known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamm...
Tsunami of Stars and Gas Produces Dazzling Eye-shaped Feature in Galaxy
Tsunami Stars Gas Dazzling Eye-shaped Galaxy
2016/11/29
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This ...
Physicists Leapfrog Accelerators with Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Physicists Accelerators Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
2016/11/4
An international team of physicists has developed a pioneering approach to using Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs)—the highest energy particles in nature since the Big Bang—to study particle inter...