Researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zang Lei and Prof. Qian Shengbang from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered that the orbital period of the persistent supersoft X-ray source QR Andromeda ...
Astronomy
May 11, 2023
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For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet—not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.
Astronomy
May 6, 2023
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Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have measured the masses of several key nuclei with high precision by employing the most advanced storage-ring ...
General Physics
May 4, 2023
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The image of the tattered shell of the first recorded supernova was captured by the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, DECam. The camera is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation's Víctor M. ...
Astronomy
May 3, 2023
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Two massive touching stars in a neighboring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together, generating waves in the fabric of space-time, according to a new study by researchers at UCL (University ...
Astronomy
Apr 27, 2023
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A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when its mass exceeds the limit of about 1.4 solar masses. A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching and involving the University of ...
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2023
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Dark matter does not emit or reflect light, nor does it interact with electromagnetic forces, making it exceptionally difficult to detect. Nevertheless, a research team from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) has ...
Astronomy
Mar 21, 2023
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Using the Guillermo Haro Observatory (OAGH) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a dwarf nova known as U Geminorum. Results of the observational campaign, published March 10 on the arXiv pre-print ...
The tattered shell of the first-ever historically recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco ...
Astronomy
Mar 1, 2023
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The cosmic zoo contains objects so bizarre and extreme that they generate gravitational waves. Scorpius X-1 is part of that strange collection. It's actually a binary pair: a neutron star orbiting with a low-mass stellar ...
Astronomy
Jan 31, 2023
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