Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. These transient phenomena ...
Our best theory of the universe might be breaking apart! The new data we're receiving from space telescopes is creating more ...
An astrophysicist has shed new light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed our galaxy thousands of years ago. In an "exciting" study published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage Or ...
A ground-breaking new discovery could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe. Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and Professor René ...
Waukesha, Wis. — All matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other and formed an enormous flash of radiation early in the universe’s history. But matter survived. Could matter and ...
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Understanding gamma rays in our universe through StarBurst, a small satellite instrument
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...
An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...
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Astrology vs Astronomy: What’s the Real Difference?
You’ve likely heard both terms – astronomy and astrology – used when we talk about the sky, stars, and planets. But did you know they are not the same and are completely different sciences? In this ...
BYU physics and astronomy research professor Mike Joner and undergraduate student Gilvan Apolognio contributed to an extensive high-time resolution optical monitoring of BL Lacertae, a distant galaxy.
Maarten Schmidt, the Dutch-born American astronomer whose discovery of quasars dramatically changed our understanding of the evolution of the cosmos and revealed the power and potency of the beasts ...
A new understanding of our galaxy’s structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter. A research effort sparked by tweets led scientists to confirm that the Milky Way’s central bulge of stars forms an ...
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