In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physicist asserted scientific malfeasance in prominent result, but his paper itself is under fire.
Equity. Representation. Political power. That’s what’s on the line as state lawmakers convene for a special session beginning Friday to approach the once-in-a-decade redistricting process, or the redrawing of political boundaries to account for demographic and population shifts.
In the dusty circumstellar disk, evidence for the existence of a planet revolving around three stars at once has been discovered for the first time.
It all started when Jeremy Smallwood's team, from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas (UNLV), in the United States, analyzed the three dust rings observed around the three stars of a solar system called GW Orionis (GW Ori), located about 1,300 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers witnessed a mysterious object in the universe emit 1,652 bursts of energy in a very short time.
Bizarre source of fast radio burst keeps exploding over and over.
Astronomers have watched a mysterious cosmic object shoot out 1,652 blasts of energy over a short period of time.
The invisible will become visible.
The largest haul of fast radio burst observations ever recorded, all from a single fast radio burst, is helping astronomers understand what causes these fleeting cosmic phenomena.
A rare repeating fast radio burst signal is helping astronomers to probe the mysterious phenomenon in more depth.
A team of astronomers from across the globe have spotted an extreme episode of cosmic explosions.