Science news articles about 'observational astrophysics'Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
... in nature for the first time. The team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have thereby opened a new window into observational astrophysics.Observation of X-rays from birth of supernova leads to all-out effort to record stellar death
... stellar explosions, according to a paper newly submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. On Jan. 9, 2008, NASA ... Kea. Except for periods of bad weather, observations were taken almost nightly for 109 days ... Where mathematics and astrophysics meet
... welcome insights and sheer delight. In their article "From the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to Astrophysics: A `Harmonious' Path", which appears today in the Notices of the AMS, mathematicians ... Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say
... 's Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics. ""Einstein's theory predicted that, in such a field, an object's spin axis should slowly ... NASA satellite pins down timer in stellar ticking time bomb
... decreased over time from about 12 Millihertz to 8 Millihertz. In a paper published recently in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the authors demonstrate that every time the QPO frequency slowed down to ... Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe
... 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. These young galaxies are the equivalent of a human baby that is 20 inches long, ... XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the universe
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the discovery by Dutch and German astronomers [1] of a filament of tenuous hot gas ... X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. Their observations (see Fig. 1) clearly show a ... Venus Express discovers hydroxyl in the atmosphere of Venus through its nightglow emission
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first detection with the Venus Express spacecraft of hydroxyl (OH) in the atmosphere of Venus. The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, ... Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web
... the May 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Charles Danforth and Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder) report on Hubble STIS and FUSE observations taken along sight-lines to 28 quasars. ... Europeans unite to tap early universe for secrets of fundamental physic
... workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), bringing together experts in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. “I think the realization of how important this is, and of how ... Scientists find giant ring encircling exotic dead star
... star known as SGR 1900+14. Observations obtained from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope ... includes Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz from Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vikram V. Dwarkadas from the University of Chicago, ... How like Earth are alien planets?
... and internal structure.
Most exciting of all, says David Charbonneau of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, transits allow us to study the atmosphere of a planet. The difference in the ... Astronomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star
... discovery of the MOA-2007-BLG-192L star-planet system was made by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA), which includes Bennett, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) ... Scientists edge closer to unlocking secrets of mysterious Crab Pulsar
... professor of physics and director of the UF Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. "It is anticipated that Advanced LIGO will be able to discover such events, if their frequency is as ... Astronomers weigh the coldest brown dwarfs with astronomy's sharpest eyes
... the sun.
The team's results are described in two upcoming papers submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan ...
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Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
... in nature for the first time. The team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have thereby opened a new window into observational astrophysics.Observation of X-rays from birth of supernova leads to all-out effort to record stellar death
... stellar explosions, according to a paper newly submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. On Jan. 9, 2008, NASA ... Kea. Except for periods of bad weather, observations were taken almost nightly for 109 days ...Where mathematics and astrophysics meet
... welcome insights and sheer delight. In their article "From the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to Astrophysics: A `Harmonious' Path", which appears today in the Notices of the AMS, mathematicians ...Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say
... 's Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics. ""Einstein's theory predicted that, in such a field, an object's spin axis should slowly ...NASA satellite pins down timer in stellar ticking time bomb
... decreased over time from about 12 Millihertz to 8 Millihertz. In a paper published recently in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the authors demonstrate that every time the QPO frequency slowed down to ...Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe
... 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. These young galaxies are the equivalent of a human baby that is 20 inches long, ...XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the universe
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the discovery by Dutch and German astronomers [1] of a filament of tenuous hot gas ... X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. Their observations (see Fig. 1) clearly show a ...Venus Express discovers hydroxyl in the atmosphere of Venus through its nightglow emission
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first detection with the Venus Express spacecraft of hydroxyl (OH) in the atmosphere of Venus. The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, ...Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web
... the May 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Charles Danforth and Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder) report on Hubble STIS and FUSE observations taken along sight-lines to 28 quasars. ...Europeans unite to tap early universe for secrets of fundamental physic
... workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), bringing together experts in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. “I think the realization of how important this is, and of how ...Scientists find giant ring encircling exotic dead star
... star known as SGR 1900+14. Observations obtained from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope ... includes Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz from Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vikram V. Dwarkadas from the University of Chicago, ...How like Earth are alien planets?
... and internal structure. Most exciting of all, says David Charbonneau of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, transits allow us to study the atmosphere of a planet. The difference in the ...Astronomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star
... discovery of the MOA-2007-BLG-192L star-planet system was made by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA), which includes Bennett, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) ...Scientists edge closer to unlocking secrets of mysterious Crab Pulsar
... professor of physics and director of the UF Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. "It is anticipated that Advanced LIGO will be able to discover such events, if their frequency is as ...Astronomers weigh the coldest brown dwarfs with astronomy's sharpest eyes
... the sun. The team's results are described in two upcoming papers submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan ...