In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise, which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. Brennan Gilmore was so enthralled that it kicked off a passion for astrophoto… [+2018 chars]
A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters, was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday. Most o… [+4442 chars]
ByBailey Sykes, Monash UniversityJune 11, 2022 An artists impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerat… [+5932 chars]
ByEva Frederick, MIT Whitehead InstituteJune 11, 2022 Data for a new gene-function map are available for other scientists to use. Its a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in… [+11672 chars]
Imagine an asteroid is heading toward the Earth not long after life arose some four billion years ago. The asteroid strikes in a region near some water ponds that contain some microorganisms. The for… [+5089 chars]
Black holes have made a number of big headlines over the last few years. In 2019, the aptly named Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) managed to capture one on film for the first time. And in May of 2022, … [+991 chars]
In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise, which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. Brennan Gilmore was so enthralled that it kicked off a passion for astrophoto… [+2018 chars]
Galactic collisions are among the most spectacular events in the cosmos. Collisions between galaxies are commonplace among galaxies that coexist in the same cluster. The gravitational attraction betw… [+3191 chars]
The launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission was delayed due to a software glitch. Now, the two small probes supposed to be hitching a ride are forced to revise their plans. NASA's Psyche Launch Del… [+3225 chars]
Figure 1 shows the MAXWELL instrument and the resolution estimate. The high z-resolution of MAXWELL is possible because of the short wavelengths of X-rays. However, it requires a high-performance X-r… [+13921 chars]
Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever heard of the lateral line? No, its not a football play. Its a sense organ shared by most fish, from sharks to… [+7478 chars]
Autocorrelation for spontaneous radiation Prior to the spontaneous radiation from the tandem undulator, we first consider the spontaneous radiation from a single undulator. Figure 1a shows the inter… [+13766 chars]
