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Artist impression of nanoscale diamonds surrounding a young star in the Milky Way. Recent Green Bank Telescope and Australia Telescope Compact Array observations have identified the telltale radio signal of diamond dust around 3 such stars, suggesting they are a source of the so-called anomalous microwave emission. (S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Astronomers Detect Nanodiamonds in Three Baby Star Systems

June 11, 2018

Astronomers have detected swirls of diamonds, hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, in the protoplanetary or circumstellar disks of three baby star systems in the Milky Way – V892 Tau, HD 97048, and MWC 297. After conducting a series of observations with the US National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope […]

This is how the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, looked on 8/27/13, from New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere. (Dave Young/Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic via Flickr)

Astronomers Search for the Sun’s Long-Lost Solar Siblings

April 20, 2018

While a family reunion is highly unlikely, Australian and European astronomers are still trying to find our Sun’s long-lost solar siblings which are now scattered throughout the sky. To do so, the scientists examined the of some 350,000 stars in the Milky Way – as though they were mapping each star’s DNA. The sun was […]

NASA Camera Snaps Images of the Moon Crossing Face of The Earth

August 8, 2015

Since the beginning of the space age more than 50 years ago, NASA, the U.S. space agency, has provided the world with spectacular images of our planet, solar system and universe. Now, NASA has just released an amazing ‘animated gif’ (see above) that shows the moon as it moves across of the sunlit side of […]

NOAA Scientists Hope to Unlock Secrets of Nighttime Thunderstorms

May 20, 2015

Most thunderstorms get their incredible energy from the sun’s heat, but some of the storms gain their strength at night, baffling scientists. To learn how these storms intensify, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA plans to keep 20 of its scientists up late at night for a large intensive field operation in […]

The galaxy EGS-zs8-1 sets a new distance record. It was discovered in images from the Hubble Space Telescope from the CANDELS survey. (NASA, ESA, P. Oesch and I. Momcheva (Yale University), 3D-HST and HUDF09/XDF Teams)

Astronomers Detect a Galaxy Far, Far Away

May 6, 2015

Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever detected, gaining new insight into the early beginnings of our universe. Identified as EGS-zs8-1, the international team of astronomers measured its exact distance at 13 billion light years away from Earth. That means that light from the galaxy now reaching Earth was produced back when the universe […]

Time-lapse photograph of one of the last Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launchses. Image was taken in 2013 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (T. Arai/University of Tokyo)

NASA Study: Universe Shines Brighter Than We Thought

November 8, 2014

Analysis of observations gathered by the first two Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) missions shows that the universe shines much brighter that had been thought. CIBER scientists found that infrared light in what were thought to be dark areas of space between galaxies is producing a glow that gleams as brightly as all the known […]

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