ALMA Radio observatory observes for the first time how double, triple, quadruple and quintuple star systems form simultaneously in a molecular cloud
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Using a unique new data set, Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix (both Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) have provided the best reconstruction yet of what could be termed the exciting teenage years of our home galaxy: the period between about 13 and 8 billion years ago when the Milky Way lived hard and fast, merging with other galaxies and consuming plenty of hydrogen to form new stars – before settling down to a more quiet life for the subsequent 8 billion years to the present. The analysis became possible through reconstructing stellar ages of Milky Way stars with unprecedented precision, drawing on recent sky survey data. The results have now been published in the journal Nature.
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The distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home finds a rapidly neutron star in an exotic binary system using data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope. The neutron star is visible as a gamma-ray pulsar called PSR J2039-5617.
DOI Further information Einstein@Home project website
Progress in understanding the dispersal mechanisms of planet-forming disks
Links The Genesis of Planets Research group project website
Fortschritte beim Verständnis der Mechanismen, wie sich planetenbildende Scheiben auflösen
2021) DOI Links The Genesis of Planets Projekt-Website
Results from the first X-ray sky survey of eROSITA resolve the previous inconsistency between competing measurements of the structure of the Universe and confirm the standard model of cosmology
high-energy cosmic sources more More Information eROSITA website
Results from the first X-ray sky survey of eROSITA resolve the previous inconsistency between competing measurements of the structure of the Universe and confirm the standard model of cosmology
high-energy cosmic sources more More Information eROSITA website
Die LIGO-Scientific und die Virgo-Kollaborationen veröffentlichen einen aktualisierten Katalog ihrer Gravitationswellensignale. Die Forscher*innen haben in den ersten sechs Monaten des dritten Beobachtungslaufs 39 neue Signale von verschmelzenden Schwarzen Löchern und Neutronensternen entdeckt, mehrere aus ausgewöhnlichen Quellen.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Virgo-Website
When the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission returned to Earth, they had almost 22 kilograms of rock from the surface of the moon in their baggage. Josef Zähringer from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg was one of the first researchers allowed to analyze the material in the US. Two months later, Heinrich Wänke’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz also received a grain.
more Further Links Apollo 11 in realtime This website
In diesem Interview erklärt Tobias Grimm von Munich Re, welche Rolle der Rückversicherer bei der Bekämpfung der Folgen des Klimawandels spielt, wie viel die extremen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels kosten, warum es neben Anpassung auch Vermeidung weiterer Ausstöße von Treibhausgasen braucht und wie der Wandel hin zu einer lebenswerten Zukunft gelingen kann.
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