How to thermally cloak an object
Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat that we can feel is visible, like the heat of a traveler in an airport with a fever or the cold of a leaky window or door in the winter......»»
Hubble spots a swift stellar jet in Running Man Nebula
A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble image. The jet (the orange object at the bottom center of the image) is being emitted by the young star Parengo 2042, which is embedded in a di.....»»
New lignin based material to replace fossil plastics and adhesives
Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a resource-efficient method to produce new lignin-based materials that can be thermally reprocessed and used to substitute thermosetting resins and adhesives......»»
Controlled & Uncontrolled Components in React
Earlier days of coding required developers to write hundreds of lines of code just to develop a single-page application. This usually involved the traditional Document Object Model (DOM) structure. Making changes to these applications was a challengi.....»»
KPD 0005+5106: Roasted and shredded by a stellar sidekick
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object—either a lightweight star or a planet—with incessant blasts of heat and radiation plus a relentless gravitational pull.....»»
Image: Hubble spies newly forming star incubating in IC 2631
Stars are born from clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core forms and begins gathering dust and gas, creating an object called a "protostar.".....»»
Astronomical object found by amateur identified as new dwarf galaxy
Astrophysicists at the University of Surrey and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía have identified a speck in the sky found by an amateur astronomer as a ground-breaking new dwarf galaxy called Pisces VII/ Tri III......»»
Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine
It's one of the most intriguing questions about the Solar System from the last five years: Is there a large planet, lurking out in the cold dark reaches, on an orbit so wide it could take 20,000 years to complete? The answer has proven elusive, but a.....»»
The first black hole image: A gravitomagnetic monopole as an alternative explanation
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently mapped the central compact object of the galaxy M87 with an unprecedented angular resolution. Though the remarkable breakthrough has been interpreted based on theory that M87 contains a rotating or "Kerr.....»»
An "earthgrazer" flew "a whopping 186 miles" over two states, then vanished, NASA says
A space object with an intimidating name—"earthgrazer"—zoomed over Georgia and Alabama this week, offering witnesses a glimpse of something rare, NASA says......»»
Study: Machine learning a useful tool for quantum control
In the everyday world, we can perform measurements with nearly unlimited precision. But in the quantum world—the realm of atoms, electrons, photons, and other tiny particles—this becomes much harder. Every measurement made disturbs the object and.....»»
Why is it wrong to sell your body? Understanding liberals" vs conservatives" moral objections to bodily markets
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Cornell University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines why people object to bodily markets and how those objections differ for liberals and conservatives......»»
Proposed Centaur mission could catch comets in the act of formation
From Mercury to the depths of the distant Kuiper Belt, there aren't many unexplored corners of the solar system out there. One class of object, however, remains to be visited: the transitional Centaurs out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Now, a new stud.....»»
Mystery of a strange, mirrored double galaxy solved using Hubble data
A strange object discovered in 2013 seemed to show two perfectly mirrored galaxies. Now astronomers have figured out why......»»
Mystery of a strange mirrored double galaxy solved using Hubble data
A strange object discovered in 2013 seemed to show two perfectly mirrored galaxies. Now astronomers have figured out why......»»
Is new finding an asteroid or a comet? It"s both
The newest known example of a rare type of object in the Solar System—a comet hidden among the main-belt asteroids—has been found and studied, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh......»»
Astronomer discovers that white dwarfs become magnetic as they get older
At least one 1 in 4 white dwarfs will end its life as a magnetic star. At the end of their life, most stars shrink in size to the dimension of a small planet, an object called a "white dwarf," a late stage of stellar evolution......»»
Study: Planets gone rogue could sustain life
A rogue planet is an interstellar object of planetary mass without a host planetary system. As they freely roam around space, could they be fertile nurseries for life?.....»»
Non-line-of-sight reconstruction with signal-object collaborative regularization
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering obscured objects from multiple scattered light. It has recently received widespread attention due to its potential applications such as autonomous driving, rescue operations, and remote sensing. In.....»»
New technique speeds measurement of ultrafast pulses
When we look at an object with our eyes, or with a camera, we can automatically gather enough pixels of light at visible wavelengths to have a clear image of what we see......»»
"Black widow" pulsar detected in globular cluster NGC 6712
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered a new pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6712. The newly found object is a so-called "black widow," and the first radio pulsar identified so far in th.....»»