Tag Archive for 'Titanium'

The Chinese lunar rover Yutu, photographed by its lander Chang’e-3, after the lander touched down in Mare Imbrium. Image credit: CNAS / CLEP.

Chinese Rover Yutu Finds New Type of Lunar Basalt

Dec 23, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of scientists led by Dr Zongcheng Ling of Shandong University in Weihai, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu has found basalts unlike those...

This is the core of a Type II supernova at the onset of explosion: neutrinos that are emitted from the protoneutron at the center are absorbed by the gas behind the shock front, heat up this gas, and drive turbulence; eventually an asymmetric explosion develops. Image credit: Christian Ott, California Institute of Technology / Steve Drasco, Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo.

Type II Supernovae Explode in Lopsided Fashion, Astronomers Say

May 8, 2015 by News Staff

New observations of the remnant of Supernova (SN) 1987A from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) are confirming predictions made at...

Astrophysicists Detect Radioactive Titanium in Supernova Remnant 1987A

Oct 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...