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Closest Brown Dwarf Binary System to the Sun May be a Triple System

Astronomers, including Carnegie’s Yuri Beletsky, took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, which suggest that the system harbors a third, planetary-mass object.The research is published as a letter to the editor in Astronomy & Astrophysics available online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1303.

17 Dec 2013

FIRST Instrument at Subaru Telescope May Help Resolve Giant and Super Giant Stars

Most stars in the galaxy are surrounded by swirling disks of dust, circling planets or other orbiting stars, yet astronomers have a hard time studying these companions because of glare from the main star.

17 Dec 2013

Leicester-Led Team Publishes Major List of Celestial X-ray Sources

An international team led from the University of Leicester has published a major list of celestial X-ray sources in the Astrophysical Journal. The result of many years work, this list of over 150,000 high-energy stars and galaxies will be a vital resource for future astronomical studies.

17 Dec 2013

Gaia Satellite to Make Most Precise Measurements of Billions of Stars in the Milky Way

On the 19th of December, the Gaia satellite will be launched and it will make the most precise measurements of the billions of stars in the Milky Way to date. Gaia is an astronomical satellite that measures the positions, distances and movement of stars. Behind the European ESA project is the Danish astronomer from the Niels Bohr Institute, Erik Høg, who has played a key role in developing the design of the new satellite, which will be a million times more efficient than its predecessor, the Hipparcos satellite.

17 Dec 2013

Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array Peers through Dusty Fog to View the W49A Stellar Nursery

W49A might be one of the best-kept secrets in our galaxy. This star-forming region shines 100 times brighter than the Orion nebula, but is so obscured by dust that very little visible or infrared light escapes.

17 Dec 2013

Supercomputer Simulations Solve Quantum Mechanics Equations in Effort to Develop New Nuclear Fuels

Two of the nation’s fastest supercomputers will aid a research team, led by a University of Alabama computational chemist, in guiding both the development of new nuclear fuels and clean-up efforts from past nuclear fuel and weapon production.

17 Dec 2013

Shrinking Cores Enhances Transfer of Electric Charges from Quantum Dots

Quantum dots—tiny semiconductor crystals with diameters measured in billionths of a meter—have enormous potential for applications that make use of their ability to absorb or emit light and/or electric charges. Examples include more vividly colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photovoltaic solar cells, nanoscale transistors, and biosensors. But because these applications have differing—sometimes opposite—requirements, finding ways to control the dots’ optical and electronic properties is crucial to their success.

17 Dec 2013

New Image Captured by NASA’s WISE Shows Dying Star, Helix Nebula

In an unexpected juxtaposition of cosmic objects that are actually quite far from each other, a newly released image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) shows a dying star, called the Helix nebula, surrounded by the tracks of asteroids. The nebula is far outside our solar system, while the asteroid tracks are inside our solar system.

16 Dec 2013

Astrophysicist Kris Sigurdson Discusses Significance of Dark Energy

Up to 70 per cent of the universe is made up of “dark energy,” – a discovery worthy of the 2011 Nobel Prize – but scientists still know precious little about it. Kris Sigurdson, associate professor of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology in UBC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, discusses how the study of dark energy could provide a more complete portrait of the universe.

16 Dec 2013

New Discovery Holds Potential to Better Understand Supernovas

Astronomers have discovered a rare chemical pairing in the remains of an exploded star, called the Crab nebula. A gas thought to be a loner has made a "friend," linking up with a chemical partner to form a molecule. The discovery, made with the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, will help scientists better understand supernovas, the violent deaths of massive stars.

16 Dec 2013

Scientists Observe Twisting Patterns in Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background

South Pole Telescope scientists have detected for the first time a subtle distortion in the oldest light in the universe, which may help reveal secrets about the earliest moments in the universe’s formation.

16 Dec 2013

IceCube Project Earns 2013 Breakthrough of the Year Award for Neutrino Discovery

Less than one month after reporting the first evidence for cosmic neutrinos, the IceCube project received the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year award from the British magazine Physics World.

16 Dec 2013

The Universe at Greater Risk of Collapse

Maybe it happens tomorrow. Maybe in a billion years. Physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball. New calculations from physicists at the University of Southern Denmark now confirm this prediction – and they also conclude that the risk of a collapse is even greater than previously thought.

13 Dec 2013

Fundamental Quantum-Mechanical Processes Play a Crucial Role in Disordered Organic, Biological Systems

By using an ultrafast camera, scientists say they have observed the very first instants following the absorption of light into artificial yet organic nanostructures and found that charges not only formed rapidly but also separated very quickly over long distances - phenomena that occur due to the wavelike nature of electrons which are governed by fundamental laws of quantum mechanics.

13 Dec 2013

Chancellor Outlines UK Government’s £270M Funding Support for Quantum Technologies

In his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, outlined how the government will provide £270M of funding over five years to support quantum technologies.

13 Dec 2013

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Closest Brown Dwarf Binary System to the Sun May be a Triple System

FIRST Instrument at Subaru Telescope May Help Resolve Giant and Super Giant Stars

Leicester-Led Team Publishes Major List of Celestial X-ray Sources

Gaia Satellite to Make Most Precise Measurements of Billions of Stars in the Milky Way

Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array Peers through Dusty Fog to View the W49A Stellar Nursery

Supercomputer Simulations Solve Quantum Mechanics Equations in Effort to Develop New Nuclear Fuels

Shrinking Cores Enhances Transfer of Electric Charges from Quantum Dots

New Image Captured by NASA’s WISE Shows Dying Star, Helix Nebula

Astrophysicist Kris Sigurdson Discusses Significance of Dark Energy

New Discovery Holds Potential to Better Understand Supernovas

Scientists Observe Twisting Patterns in Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background

IceCube Project Earns 2013 Breakthrough of the Year Award for Neutrino Discovery

The Universe at Greater Risk of Collapse

Fundamental Quantum-Mechanical Processes Play a Crucial Role in Disordered Organic, Biological Systems

Chancellor Outlines UK Government’s £270M Funding Support for Quantum Technologies

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