Food for young twin stars: Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system Stars are born in the midst of large clouds…
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their…
Neuroscientists provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as much as expected. Using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, Vaidehi Natu…
A black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion, viewed within their orbital plane. Powerful radiation and the pulsar’s “wind” – an outflow of high-energy…
Wheel mounting in seconds: as soon as a non-uniform electric field is switched on, the chassis of a microvehicle pulls its own wheels into wheel…
If the orbit of an extrasolar planet is aligned in such a way that it passes in front of its star when viewed from Earth,…
Dead and alive: Schrödinger’s cat is entangled with an atom. If the atom is excited, the cat is alive. If it has decayed, the cat…
The picture shows the developing ferret brain. Magenta marks glial cells and clearly shows the outer contour of the brain. The green area consists of…
Space is moving: This numerical-relativistic simulation reflects the first observed fusion of two black holes measured by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015.…