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Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 20.09.2023 
Hiccups in the starry nursery
Before the light comes on and a new star shines, enough gas and dust must accumulate in a very small space for a star's energy source, nuclear fusion, to ignite. This by no means happens at rest. Matter swirls around, and before the star sees the light of day, violent birth labour is not uncommon. The new James Webb Space Telescope has turned its lens on such a spectacle, which reveals itself in unprecedented detail.
Environment - Astronomy / Space Science - 09.08.2023 
Measuring the Extent of Global Droughts in Unprecedented Detail
Researchers from the University of Bonn are re-analyzing satellite data to calculate global water distribution While some parts of the world suffer extreme heat and persistent drought, others are being flooded. Overall, continental water volumes vary so much over time that global sea levels fluctuate significantly too.
Physics - Astronomy / Space Science - 03.08.2023 
New World Record: Thinnest Ever Pixel Detector Installed
An international team has fitted the core element of the Belle II experiment at the KEK research center in Japan The Belle II cooperation project at the Japanese research center KEK is helping researchers from all over the world to hunt for new phenomena in particle physics. The international experiment has now reached a major milestone after a team successfully installed a new pixel detector in its final location in Japan.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 24.07.2023 
Water discovered in rocky planet-forming zone offers clues on habitability
James Webb Space Telescope observations find water for the first time in the inner disk around a young star with giant planets. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the MPIA-led MINDS research collaboration discovered water in the inner region of a disk of gas and dust around the young star PDS 70.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 21.07.2023 
Novel object in the constellation Shield
The star could be a magnetar with properties that have yet to be explained A new type of stellar object could challenge our understanding of neutron stars. An international team, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has discovered a celestial body in the constellation Shield (Scutum) that could be an ultralong-period magnetar, a rare type of star with extremely strong magnetic fields that can produce violent bursts of energy.
Astronomy / Space Science - 30.06.2023 
An impossible planet?
When stars, similar to the sun, have reached the end of their lifetime, they inflate into red giant stars. The sun, for example, would then have a diameter hundreds of times larger than today. Whether the Earth will survive this final stage of its home star is uncertain. The planet called Halla around a sun-like star near Polaris, however, was lucky.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 30.06.2023 
IceCube detects neutrinos from the Milky Way
For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which ORIGINS scientist Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of Munich provided important preliminary work.
Astronomy / Space Science - 30.06.2023 
’IceCube’ Observatory provides evidence of neutrinos in the Milky Way for the first time
International team of researchers produces image of our galaxy with the aid of neutrinos / Study published in -Science- journal Our Milky Way is a galaxy consisting of billions of stars and can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located in the ice of the Antarctic, has now for the first time produced an image of the Milky Way - with the aid of neutrinos.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 29.06.2023 
Breakthrough in the search for slowly oscillating gravitational waves
Data collected over 15 years provide the first compelling evidence for the existence of a low-frequency background noise from gravitational waves in the universe / Physicist Kai Schmitz from Münster University member of the collaboration For the first time, astrophysicists have found compelling evidence for the existence of gravitational waves which oscillate with periods ranging from years to decades.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 29.06.2023 
Breakthrough in the search for slowly oscillating gravitational waves
Data from 15 years provide first convincing evidence for the existence of low-frequency background noise from gravitational waves in the universe / Physicist Kai Schmitz from the University of Münster involved in consortium Astrophysicists have for the first time found convincing evidence for the existence of gravitational waves that oscillate with periods ranging from years to decades.
Astronomy / Space Science - 29.06.2023 
A new access to the universe
Precise as a clock: pulsars in the Milky Way form large-scale observatory for gravitational waves Astronomical observatories are usually based on Earth and study the extreme processes in the universe by capturing light as an information carrier. But not all processes in the universe produce light. For example, when galaxies merge and black holes orbit each other, they cause ripples in space-time.
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 14.06.2023 
Existence of Key Element for Life in the Outer Solar System
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin have discovered phosphorus in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system has just taken a giant leap forward. A team of researchers led by Professor Frank Postberg, a planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus contains a key building block for life.
Astronomy / Space Science - 24.05.2023 
Experts confirm meteorite find in Elmshorn
Sky rock testifies to intense collisions in early solar system A suspected meteorite find at the end of April in Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein has now been confirmed: Scientists from Münster and Dresden have analyzed the find and determined that the rock is a so-called common type H chondrite. This is a group of meteorites that have a particularly high proportion of metal.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 23.05.2023 
Explosion in the Night Sky - First Brightness Measurements of Supernova SN2023ixf
Astronomers at the University of Potsdam have succeeded in making one of the world's first brightness measurements of the supernova SN2023ixf in the constellation Ursa Major, which was discovered only on Friday evening. It is the brightest detected outburst in more than ten years in the galaxy Messier 101.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 27.04.2023 
Dark couple - Most massive touching stars ever found will eventually collide as black holes
Two massive touching stars in a neighbouring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together, generating waves in the fabric of space-time, according to a new study by researchers at University College London and the University of Potsdam. The study, accepted for publication in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics", looked at a known binary star (two stars orbiting around a mutual centre of gravity), analysing starlight obtained from a range of groundand space-based telescopes.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 25.04.2023 
The digestive system of the mass monster M87
A few years ago, the image of an orange glowing donut caused a sensation. For the first time, researchers have captured an image of the immediate vicinity of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87. This galaxy is known for a jet that accelerates matter far out of the galaxy, driven by the central black hole.
Life Sciences - Astronomy / Space Science - 21.04.2023 
’Our box flies by up there every 90 minutes’
In March 18 TUM students followed the launch of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Kennedy Space Center in person. A box in the cargo compartment contained an experiment the young researchers had developed to investigate the aging process of brain cells, to be conducted aboard the International Space Station ISS.
Astronomy / Space Science - Environment - 18.04.2023 
Metal-poor stars are more life-friendly
A star's chemical composition strongly influences the chances for life on planets in its neighbourhood Stars that contain comparatively large amounts of heavy elements provide less favourable conditions for the emergence of complex life than metal-poor stars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Solar System Research and for Chemistry as well as from the University of Göttingen have now found.
Astronomy / Space Science - History / Archeology - 20.03.2023 
Research team uncovers further ceiling paintings in the temple of Esna
An Egyptian-German research team has uncovered yet another series of colorful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt. The researchers reported that the Egyptian restoration team, led by Ahmed Emam, succeeded in completely restoring and re-coloring a representation of the heavens. The images, executed in relief, include a complete depiction of the signs of the zodiac.
Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 24.02.2023 
Distant cradles of stars
James Webb Space Telescope unveils star formation in gas and dust networks of other galaxies The first images of the James Webb Space Telescope are helping to uncover the missing pieces of the star formation puzzle in nearby galaxies. Data from the powerful infrared telescope are revealing previously hidden regions where new stars are born. These images provide the first clues as to how networks of gas and dust become the site of active star formation.
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Before the light comes on and a new star shines, enough gas and dust must accumulate in a very small space for a star's energy source, nuclear fusion, to ignite. This by no means happens at rest. Matter swirls around, and before the star sees the light of day, violent birth labour is not uncommon. The new James Webb Space Telescope has turned its lens on such a spectacle, which reveals itself in unprecedented detail.
Researchers from the University of Bonn are re-analyzing satellite data to calculate global water distribution While some parts of the world suffer extreme heat and persistent drought, others are being flooded. Overall, continental water volumes vary so much over time that global sea levels fluctuate significantly too.
An international team has fitted the core element of the Belle II experiment at the KEK research center in Japan The Belle II cooperation project at the Japanese research center KEK is helping researchers from all over the world to hunt for new phenomena in particle physics. The international experiment has now reached a major milestone after a team successfully installed a new pixel detector in its final location in Japan.
James Webb Space Telescope observations find water for the first time in the inner disk around a young star with giant planets. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the MPIA-led MINDS research collaboration discovered water in the inner region of a disk of gas and dust around the young star PDS 70.
The star could be a magnetar with properties that have yet to be explained A new type of stellar object could challenge our understanding of neutron stars. An international team, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has discovered a celestial body in the constellation Shield (Scutum) that could be an ultralong-period magnetar, a rare type of star with extremely strong magnetic fields that can produce violent bursts of energy.
When stars, similar to the sun, have reached the end of their lifetime, they inflate into red giant stars. The sun, for example, would then have a diameter hundreds of times larger than today. Whether the Earth will survive this final stage of its home star is uncertain. The planet called Halla around a sun-like star near Polaris, however, was lucky.
For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which ORIGINS scientist Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of Munich provided important preliminary work.
International team of researchers produces image of our galaxy with the aid of neutrinos / Study published in -Science- journal Our Milky Way is a galaxy consisting of billions of stars and can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located in the ice of the Antarctic, has now for the first time produced an image of the Milky Way - with the aid of neutrinos.
Data collected over 15 years provide the first compelling evidence for the existence of a low-frequency background noise from gravitational waves in the universe / Physicist Kai Schmitz from Münster University member of the collaboration For the first time, astrophysicists have found compelling evidence for the existence of gravitational waves which oscillate with periods ranging from years to decades.
Data from 15 years provide first convincing evidence for the existence of low-frequency background noise from gravitational waves in the universe / Physicist Kai Schmitz from the University of Münster involved in consortium Astrophysicists have for the first time found convincing evidence for the existence of gravitational waves that oscillate with periods ranging from years to decades.
Precise as a clock: pulsars in the Milky Way form large-scale observatory for gravitational waves Astronomical observatories are usually based on Earth and study the extreme processes in the universe by capturing light as an information carrier. But not all processes in the universe produce light. For example, when galaxies merge and black holes orbit each other, they cause ripples in space-time.
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin have discovered phosphorus in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system has just taken a giant leap forward. A team of researchers led by Professor Frank Postberg, a planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus contains a key building block for life.
Sky rock testifies to intense collisions in early solar system A suspected meteorite find at the end of April in Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein has now been confirmed: Scientists from Münster and Dresden have analyzed the find and determined that the rock is a so-called common type H chondrite. This is a group of meteorites that have a particularly high proportion of metal.
Astronomers at the University of Potsdam have succeeded in making one of the world's first brightness measurements of the supernova SN2023ixf in the constellation Ursa Major, which was discovered only on Friday evening. It is the brightest detected outburst in more than ten years in the galaxy Messier 101.
Two massive touching stars in a neighbouring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together, generating waves in the fabric of space-time, according to a new study by researchers at University College London and the University of Potsdam. The study, accepted for publication in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics", looked at a known binary star (two stars orbiting around a mutual centre of gravity), analysing starlight obtained from a range of groundand space-based telescopes.
A few years ago, the image of an orange glowing donut caused a sensation. For the first time, researchers have captured an image of the immediate vicinity of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87. This galaxy is known for a jet that accelerates matter far out of the galaxy, driven by the central black hole.
In March 18 TUM students followed the launch of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Kennedy Space Center in person. A box in the cargo compartment contained an experiment the young researchers had developed to investigate the aging process of brain cells, to be conducted aboard the International Space Station ISS.
A star's chemical composition strongly influences the chances for life on planets in its neighbourhood Stars that contain comparatively large amounts of heavy elements provide less favourable conditions for the emergence of complex life than metal-poor stars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Solar System Research and for Chemistry as well as from the University of Göttingen have now found.
An Egyptian-German research team has uncovered yet another series of colorful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt. The researchers reported that the Egyptian restoration team, led by Ahmed Emam, succeeded in completely restoring and re-coloring a representation of the heavens. The images, executed in relief, include a complete depiction of the signs of the zodiac.
James Webb Space Telescope unveils star formation in gas and dust networks of other galaxies The first images of the James Webb Space Telescope are helping to uncover the missing pieces of the star formation puzzle in nearby galaxies. Data from the powerful infrared telescope are revealing previously hidden regions where new stars are born. These images provide the first clues as to how networks of gas and dust become the site of active star formation.
