3 months ago
Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL - researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar winds. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer -, on board the Japanese-UK-US Hinode satellite, is now generating unprecedented obs ... read more

3 months ago
Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL - researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar winds. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer -, on board the Japanese-UK-US Hinode satellite, is now generating unprecedented obs ... read more

3 months ago
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.The team has obtained extremely precise data about the early universe, using a telescope near the South Pole in the Antarctic.Their measurements of the cosmic microwave background - a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe - provide furt ... read more

3 months ago
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.The team has obtained extremely precise data about the early universe, using a telescope near the South Pole in the Antarctic.Their measurements of the cosmic microwave background - a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe - provide furt ... read more

3 months ago
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.The team has obtained extremely precise data about the early universe, using a telescope near the South Pole in the Antarctic.Their measurements of the cosmic microwave background - a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe - provide furt ... read more

3 months ago
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.The team has obtained extremely precise data about the early universe, using a telescope near the South Pole in the Antarctic.Their measurements of the cosmic microwave background - a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe - provide furt ... read more

3 months ago
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.The team has obtained extremely precise data about the early universe, using a telescope near the South Pole in the Antarctic.Their measurements of the cosmic microwave background - a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe - provide furt ... read more

8 months ago
New technique will detect water on earth-like planets
Washington, May 26 - Since the early 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting far away stars, nearly all of them being gas giants like Jupiter. Now, powerful telescopes, similar to NASA's recently launched Kepler Mission, will help spot much smaller rocky extrasolar planets, or exoplanets with water, more similar to earth. Seen from dozens of light years away, an exopla ... read more

9 months ago
Extrasolar planets disappear after parent stars pluck them
Washington, April 28 - Billions of planets are orbiting stars outside our solar system, but many have disappeared after being plucked by the gravitational pull of their stars, according to a study. Computer models over the last year or so have only predicted that gravitational forces might pull a planet into its parent star and this is such planet destruction has already occurred, said Washingto ... read more

11 months ago
Does cosmic turbulence trigger birth of massive stars?
Washington, Feb 25 - The constellation of Orion the Hunter swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium, each of them as dazzling as 100,000 suns and with 15 to 30 times the sun's mass. Where did the Trapezium stars originate? New data from the Submillimeter -, a joint project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysic ... read more