13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... discovery over 60 years ago, the neutrino has held a long fascination with scientists due to its importance in astrophysical processes, however despite being produced in extremely abundant quantities – from the Sun alone, calculations suggest that...
10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
... and is very strong there,' says Maarit Käpylä, head of the DYNAMO team, who conducts astroinformatics or computational astrophysics and data-analysis at the Department of Computer Science. The convection zone extends from a depth of 200,000...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
... on such a scale in this 'normal' star cluster, " said Dr Simon Campbell from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Finding this new batch of stars that are advancing straight to old age, has been made possible...
24 May 2016
Astronomers find ultra diffuse galaxy heavy in dark matter
... amount of dark matter,” says Michael Beasley, the first author of a research paper recently published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. VCC 1287 resides within the Virgo Cluster, surrounded by a swarm of globular clusters (GCs) and...
