Planck spots hot gas bridging galaxy cluster pair ESA's Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space. In the early Universe, filaments of gaseous matter pervaded the...
Title: The quasi-resonant variability of the massive LMC system BI 108 Authors: Zbigniew Koaczkowski, Ronald Mennickent, Thomas Rivinius, Grzegorz Pietrzyski The early B supergiant LMC star BI 108 is photometrically variable with a unique light curve; two strong periods are present in an almo...
NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial Worlds NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. Planets b...
Title: Kinematics of the Compact Symmetric Object OQ 208 - revisited Authors: Fang Wu, Tao An, Willem A. Baan, Xiao-Yu Hong, Carlo Stanghellini, Sandor Frey, Hai-Guang Xu, Xiang Liu, Jingying Wang Aims. A long timeline kinematic study of the archetypal CSO OQ 208 sheds light on the physical proper...
Petroglyph thefts near Bishop stun federal authorities, Paiutes Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away...
Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College. [ur...
Willem Jacob van Stockum (November 20, 1910 - June 10, 1944) was a mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity. Read more
Failed explosions explain most peculiar supernovae Supercomputer simulations have revealed that a type of oddly dim, exploding star is probably a class of duds - one that could nonetheless throw new light on the mysterious nature of dark energy. Most of the thousands of exploding stars classifie...
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Research Vessel Roger Revelle Returns to San Diego after Six-year Voyage Scientific research aboard Scripps flagship involved 86 different scientific research expeditions, 1,917 operational days and 338,000 nautical miles in the Pacific, Indian, Southern and Atlantic Oceans since Decembe...
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