29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... amount of baryonic matter in the Universe, is that half of it appears to be missing (the so-called “missing baryons” problem). Some researchers are using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data obtained via WMAP to search for the missing matter...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...these studies can be complicated by the presence of clouds and hazes in the upper envelope in an exoplanets envelope. In the research presented by Bitsch and Johansen, the authors studied dust composition (its oxygen and silicon content) in different...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
... to months - a feature that is lacking in our own Solar System. So, why isn’t Earth accompanied by a much larger neighbour? Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas studying planet formation have suggested that the key to building super...
10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
...of Excellence and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, used a global computer model of the Sun to seek... is nontrivial. Through centuries of recording sunspot numbers, researchers know that sunspot cycles occur roughly every 11 years....
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... to Astronomy and Astrophysics journal by lead author M.Min from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. This recent research suggests that the amount of water ice detected in the outer disk of HD 142527 requires around 80 percent...
29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
A massive rotating ring of organic molecules, with a radius 50 times wider than the Earth’s orbit, has been detected around a Solar-type protostar, showing that interstellar organic materials are being fed into a rotating disk structure that ...
