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VLA Sky Survey Finds Young, Compact Jets in Distant Galaxies

Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores that have launched powerful, radio-emitting jets of material within the past two decades or so.

20 Nov 2020

Arecibo Observatory's 305-Meter Telescope to be Decommissioned Due to Safety Concerns

Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which for 57 years has served as a world-class resource for radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace research.

20 Nov 2020

NAU Chemical Physicist Collaborates with Lowell Planetary Scientist to Study Saturn's Moon Titan

Scientists say Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only body in our solar system besides Earth with liquid on its surface. However, chemical elements behave very differently there in the extremely cold and dense atmosphere, with a temperature of minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

20 Nov 2020

New Study Successfully Explains Unique Electron Emission in Certain Materials

In physics, electrons leaving a specific material, flying away, and then being measured is a quite common occurrence. Certain materials emit electrons upon irradiation by light.

20 Nov 2020

New Breakthrough Enables Direct Generation of High-Energy Laser Pulses

Using the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) facility, the research team of Professor François Légaré of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has pushed back the boundaries of high-energy pulse propagation in a nonlinear medium through the observation of high-energy multidimensional solitary states (MDSS).

19 Nov 2020

Astronomers Observe Seven New Cosmic Masers

The publication is the result of many months of observations of radiation coming from the plane of the Milky Way, namely from the spiral arms of our galaxy, where a lot of matter, dust and gas accumulate. It is under such conditions that massive stars are born.

19 Nov 2020

NASA Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in the Milky Way Galaxy

Earlier in 2004, researchers from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer detected a huge, faint blob of gas that appeared to have a star at its core.

19 Nov 2020

CSIRO Research Vessel Investigator Films Meteor Break Up Over Ocean

Stunning footage of a meteor break up over the ocean has been captured off the southern coast of Tasmania by research vessel Investigator, operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.

19 Nov 2020

NMR Spectrometer Visualizes Atomic-Scale Structure of Complex Systems

The University of Warwick has successfully energized a new high-powered magnet for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in the United Kingdom.

18 Nov 2020

A New Strategy to Manipulate 'Spin Orientation' in Magnetite at Room Temperature

Over the last few decades, conventional electronics has been rapidly reaching its technical limits in computing and information technology, calling for innovative devices that go beyond the mere manipulation of electron current. In this regard, spintronics, the study of devices that exploit the "spin" of electrons to perform functions, is one of the hottest areas in applied physics. But, measuring, altering, and, in general, working with this fundamental quantum property is no mean feat.

18 Nov 2020