March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... problem and help reduce the predicted abundances of 3He. First, some researchers suggest that the 3He formed inside the core of the stars is destroyed before the star has chance to pulsate and eject its material into...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
...- and mid-infrared light only (from 0.6 to 28 micrometers). Infrared light is especially important as it will help reveal the first stars and galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. It is also at infrared wavelengths that researchers are able...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... most obvious way to make primordial SMBH seeds is from the collapse of the hypothesised very first stars - Population III stars – in the early Universe (see https://room.eu.com/news/Using_gravitational_waves...). By a combination of either mergers...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... that spans a wide range of wavelengths thus allowing astronomers to study a diverse area of astronomical phenomena from the first stars and galaxies that emerged from the cosmic "dark ages" billions of years ago to mapping the gas...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
.... The team has worked incredibly hard, and the first data will reveal how well the instrument truly performs,”...thought to have lasted several hundred million years before the first stars were born. Its “dark” description is poignant both figuratively...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
... understand how the universe reached conditions for the very first stars and galaxies to form and HERA will help them ... should allow us to observe the lighting up of the very first stars after the Big Bang,” says Dr David DeBoer, HERA Project ...
