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For centuries, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of one of the universe's oldest and densest stellar systems, known ...
A study led by the University of Surrey has used high-resolution simulations to solve a centuries-old cosmic mystery in astronomy—the origin of globular clusters—and unexpectedly discovered a new type ...
Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has provided deeper insight into the entire life cycle (birth, growth and death) ...
This animation shows the simulated evolution of a galaxy over 200 million years. While the simulations look very similar with and without the machine learning AI model, the AI model performed 4 times ...
In between all the stars in our galaxy, there is a vast, diffuse mix of gas and dust known as the interstellar medium — and scientists have developed a new computer model to explore the magnetism and ...
Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.
What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...
"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." Our cosmic neighborhood may ...
"Turbulence remains one of the greatest unsolved problems in classical mechanics." In between all the stars in our galaxy, there is a vast, diffuse mix of gas and dust known as the interstellar medium ...