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Astronomy, News, Radio Astronomy

Missing Matter Found! Fast Radio Bursts Confirm Cosmological Model

27 Feb , 2016 by Matt Williams

By measuring a fast radio burst (FRB) coming from space, a team of CSIRO scientists claims to have accounted for the “missing matter” of the Universe

australian telescope compact array, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), cosmological model, Fast radio bursts, national astronomical observatory of japan, Nature magazine, Parkes Observatory, redshift, SKA Organization, Square Kilometer Array

Astronomy, Comets, ISON, Solar System

Comet ISON Hosted A Rare Kind Of Nitrogen, Hinting At Reservoirs In Young Solar System

21 Feb , 2014 by Elizabeth Howell

Comet ISON — that bright comet last year that broke up around Thanksgiving weekend — included two forms of nitrogen in its icy body, according to newly released observations from the Subaru Telescope. Of the two types found, the discovery of isotope 15NH2 was the first time it’s ever been seen in a comet. Further, […]

ammonia, early solar system, national astronomical observatory of japan, nitrogen, Subaru Telescope

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