Nearby supernova factory ramps up Date: May 24, 2011 Source: Chandra X-ray Center Summary: A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's ...

The international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), led by Greg Aldering of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has now released a unique ...

Nearby supernova factory models early universe. ... At 140 million light-years away, the cluster in one of the galaxies of Arp 299 is the closest of just 10 or so nearby super star clusters.

Supernova twins: Making standard candles more standard than ever The Nearby Supernova Factory, based at Berkeley Lab, finds a new way to measure cosmological distances with far greater accuracy ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help ...

The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved “first light ...

From left, Greg Aldering, Kyle Boone, Hannah Fakhouri and Saul Perlmutter of the Nearby Supernova Factory. Behind them is a poster of a supernova spectrum.

The search for the universe's dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that ...

Portal Space Systems will set up a 50,000-square-foot spacecraft manufacturing facility near its design and testing hub in ...

Nearby supernova factory ramps up The new Chandra survey revealed the presence of six possible neutron stars, providing strong evidence that the supernova activity is ramping up in the Carina Nebula.

A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better ...

A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better ...