Department of Physics and Astronomy News
Physics and astronomy are two of the most basic and fundamental sciences. Physics is the study of matter, energy, motion, and force. Its concepts help us understand how the universe behaves. Astronomy studies the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, including celestial objects and the formation and development of the universe.
Current Physics and Astronomy News
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A flurry of more than 1,650 FRBs detected by FAST telescope over 47 days in 2019 unlocks clues to the nature and location of the powerful millisecond-long cosmic radio explosions.
Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation.
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New discovery details how metals at room temperature can move from one state to another with a relatively small change in pressure.
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Physics and Astronomy In The News
Around the turn of the 21st century, a new age of galactic discovery began.
The telescope will be used to take unprecedented images of the deepest part of the universe. The powerful space instrument will devote a full quarter of its first year to peering at exoplanets in the Milky Way.
According to the research results, the Be star is rotating at high speed, so that a part of its mass is emitted to the accretion disk, from which the neutron star can suck up matter.
Alessia Franchini (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) and Rebecca Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) are studying a system of Be and neutron stars. increase. According to the research results, the Be star is rotating at high speed, so that a part of its mass is emitted to the accretion disk, from which the neutron star can suck up matter.
When the James Webb Space Telescope gets into place next month about a million miles from Earth, it will allow scientists to see the light of distant galaxies and marvel at the origins of the universe.
A team of researchers has observed an unusual transformation in material under incredibly high pressure.
