New research suggest the universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to researchers using observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. …read more Source:: Science
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Virtual ‘universe machine’ sheds light on galaxy evolution
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•By creating millions of virtual universes and comparing them to observations of actual galaxies, researchers have made discoveries that present a powerful new approach for studying galaxy formation. …read more Source:: Science
Moon-forming disk discovered around distant planet
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•Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that is believed to have …read more Source:: Science
Wild chimpanzees eat tortoises after cracking them open against tree trunks
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•Researchers have observed wild chimpanzees in the Loango National Park, Gabon, eating tortoises. They describe the first observations of this potentially cultural behavior where chimpanzees hit tortoises against tree trunks …read more Source:: Science
Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution
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•An international team of researchers presents the first observations of the development of the skull and brain in the living coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. Their study provides new insights into the …read more Source:: Science
Waves in Saturn’s rings give precise measurement of planet’s rotation rate
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•Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers find signatures of a ‘messy’ star that made its companion go supernova
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•Astronomers announced that they have identified the type of companion star that made its partner in a binary system, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf star, explode. Through repeated observations of SN …read more Source:: Science
Oceans are warming even faster than previously thought
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•Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, concludes an analysis of four recent ocean heating observations. The results provide further evidence that earlier claims …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers map ‘light echoes’ of newly discovered black hole
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•A team of astronomers has charted the environment surrounding a relatively small, ‘stellar mass’ black hole that is 10 times the mass of the sun. The observations provide the clearest …read more Source:: Science
Black hole ‘donuts’ are actually ‘fountains’
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•Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple …read more Source:: Science