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A Swinburne astronomer may have just confirmed one of the quirkiest aspects of quantum mechanics: that seemingly empty space can alter the behaviour of light.
Exceptionally polarized X-rays from 1E 1547.0−5408 could provide a rare test of a 90-year-old quantum prediction.
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Artists concept. About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it.
SpaceAstronomers discover a lost galaxy buried in the Milky Way’s ancient star clustersJoseph Shavit
Radiation belt particle diffusion may be mimicked by predictable particle motion that spacecraft cannot fully resolve.
SpaceSpacecraft may be mistaking how energetic particles move around the EarthJoseph Shavit
An AI-generated visualisation of a distant galaxy, containing besides dust, gas and young stars three massive, active black holes (black spheres, not to scale) with bright accretion disks. Other distant galaxies are shown in the background, and few stars in the foreground.
SpaceJWST finds three feeding black holes packed into one early galaxyJoseph Shavit
A new study captures the first clear evidence of ambipolar diffusion, a process that allows stars to form from dense cosmic clouds.
SpaceScientists detect key process that triggers new star formationJoshua Shavit
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image with box added to show location of the globular cluster stellar stream.
Space2-kiloparsec trail of stars could reveal how dark matter shapes galaxiesJoseph Shavit
IceCube at the South pole with the Milky Way in the background.
SpaceThe Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino imageJoseph Shavit
New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes float in a glass of water.
SpaceDiamond’s extreme melting point could unlock more fusion energyJoshua Shavit
Space habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on long missions by influencing sleep, privacy, connection, and homesickness.
SpaceSpace habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on Mars missionsJoseph Shavit
Theia remnants inside Earth may survive as two giant mantle blobs left by the collision that created the Moon.
SpaceScientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years agoJoseph Shavit
JWST detects water around IRS 3, a dying star shedding huge amounts of gas and dust near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
SpaceJWST finds water around a dying star near the Milky Way’s central black holeJoshua Shavit
A JWST black hole star candidate may explain mysterious little red dots and how massive black holes grew in the early universe.
SpaceStrange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’Joseph Shavit
Face-on projections of the stacked surface density distribution of stars and gas in the X-Y plane.
SpaceDark matter and star clusters work together to reshape the centers of galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Gaia star clusters challenge the universal initial mass function used to estimate galaxy mass, star formation and evolution.
SpaceNew Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies formJoseph Shavit
Captured at a wavelength of 416 nanometers by the Inouye Solar Telescope, this is the highest-resolution image ever taken of the Sun's visible surface. It reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures and distorted boundaries shaped by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
SpaceSmall whirlpool-like structures reveal how the Sun stores and releases energyJoshua Shavit
Illustration of solar wind streaming from a fuming Sun drives auroras bright enough to be seen far from the poles, a dazzling signature of an extreme geomagnetic storm
SpaceScientists discover solar storms could hit Earth much harder than previously thoughtJoseph Shavit
Dark markings on Pluto’s largest glacier may be evidence that liquid nitrogen recently rose and flowed across its surface.
SpaceNew Horizons images reveal signs of flowing liquid nitrogen on PlutoJoseph Shavit