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Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe
December 6, 2012 — In this holiday season of home cooking and carefully-honed recipes, some astronomers are asking: what is the best mix of ingredients for stars to make the largest number of plump black holes? They ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bullseye
December 6, 2012 — In Hubble’s image, NGC 922 clearly reveals itself not to be a normal spiral galaxy. The spiral arms are disrupted, a stream of stars extends out towards the top of the image, and a bright ring ... > full story -
When the First Stars Blinked On: Very First Stars May Have Turned on When the Universe Was 750 Million Years Old
December 5, 2012 — Researchers have peered far back in time, to the era of the first stars and galaxies, and found matter with no discernible trace of heavy ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover and 'Weigh' Infant Solar System: Young Star With Rotating Dust Disk Is Youngest Still-Forming Planetary System Yet Found
December 5, 2012 — A young star no more than 300,000 years old is surrounded by a disk of dust and gas rotating in the same manner as planets in our Solar System, making it the youngest such infant system yet ... > full story -
Next Scientific Fashion Could Be Designer Nanocrystals
December 5, 2012 — Three chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a broad array ... > full story -
Galaxy-Wide Echoes from the Past: VLT Observations Identify Very Rare New Kind of Galaxy
December 5, 2012 — A new galaxy class has been identified using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South telescope, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Nicknamed ... > full story -
Andromeda Wants You! Astronomers Ask Public to Find Star Clusters in Hubble Images
December 5, 2012 — Astronomers are seeking volunteers to explore the galaxy next door, Andromeda. The Andromeda Project will use people power to examine thousands of Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy to ... > full story -
Quantum Thermodynamics: A Better Understanding of How Atoms Soak Up Their Surroundings
December 4, 2012 — The best yet calculations of the effect of blackbody radiation on the wavefunction of ytterbium atoms, should help produce a better atomic ... > full story -
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Synchrotron Gives Insight Into Green Energy Enzymes
December 4, 2012 — Chemists have been using a Japanese synchrotron to get a detailed look at enzymes that could help power the green ... > full story -
Gases from Grasses: Simulations on Ranger Supercomputer Help Researchers Understand Biofuel Reactions
December 4, 2012 — Researchers used computer simulations and laboratory experiments to discover a reaction site on gold-titanium oxides that is responsible for high rates of catalysis relevant to biofuel and fuel cell ... > full story
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