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Astronomers have published new images of a bright jet of material

The observations confirm the existence of a second jet, blasting in the opposite direction. The study uses this galaxy, Pictor A, to test ideas about what makes jets like these emit very bright X-rays. It appears in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. To make their observations, the team combined 15 years of X-ray data, from Nasa's Chandra space telescope, with images taken in radio wavelengths by theAustralia Telescope Compact Array. Chandra has been in orbit since 1999 - and interest in Pictor A was sparked right back at the beginning of its mission, according to Martin Hardcastle from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. "The early images from Chandra showed there was this very bright jet," Prof Hardcastle, the study's lead author, told. "At that stage we didn't really understand it, because the data were good enough to make an image of the jet, but not to do this kind of detailed analysis." The new images have five o...

Pigeons distinguishing breast cancer like as humans

The actual pigeons could generalise precisely what they learned, correctly distinguishing tumours within invisible microscope images. In addition, they performed well with a particular mammogram-classifying task, though an extra mammogram analyze (recognising shady lumps) turned out way too tough. The actual pigeons' capacity may help increase completely new image-based analysis technological know-how. Probable zero bigger than the tip of this catalog little finger, the actual pigeon's human brain on the other hand provides remarkable functions. Pigeons can easily recognize identities along with emotive expressions about human looks, letters on the alphabet, misshapen drug products, and also art simply by Monet compared to Picasso, inches stated Prof Edward Wasserman from your School regarding Iowa, the co-author on the review. "Their aesthetic storage volume is every bit as remarkable, which has a established remember in excess of 1, 900 images. inches...

Physicists shed new light on one of the greatest mysteries in science: Why the Universe consists primarily of matter and not antimatter?

Antimatter is a shadowy mirror image of the ordinary matter we are familiar with. For the first time, scientists have measured the forces that make certain antimatter particles stick together. The findings, published in Nature, may yield clues to what led to the scarcity of antimatter in the cosmos today. It remains one of the big challenges of scienceAihong Tang, Brookhaven National Laboratory. The forces between antimatter particles - in this case antiprotons - had not been measured before. If antiprotons were found to behave in a different way to their "mirror images" (the ordinary proton particles that are found in atoms) it might provide a potential explanation for what is known as "matter/antimatter asymmetry". At the beginning of the Universe, the Big Bang produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. But that's not the world we see today: instead antimatter is extremely rare. Some phenomenon must have led to the overwhelming dominance...

The first moving images of a mysterious whale species has been released by a team of international scientists

Omura whale Whale researchers have discovered a population of Omura's whales living near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It's the first time the whales have been seen alive in photos or video. Dr. Salvatore Cerchio from the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution led the study. So little is known about the Omura's that scientists don't know how many exist in the wild. The study, looks at the Omura's techniques for finding food, the sounds they make and their preferred habitat in the shallow coastal waters of Madagascar, an island in the western Indian Ocean."Over the years, there have been a small handful of possible sightings of Omura's whales, but nothing that was confirmed," says Dr. Cerchio. Omura's whales are a relatively small whale ranging in length from 10 to 12 metres long. They are from the whale family called rorquals, which all have long, deep grooves along their throats that can expand when they fee...

An image of Kerberos Pluto's moon finally shows itself

It shows the object to have two lobes, which may be the consequence of icy bodies bumping into each other and joining up. Kerberos's larger lobe is judged to be about 8km across. The smaller lobe is roughly 5km in diameter. Styx, the other little moon in the system, is of a comparable size. Mission scientists say these satellites are brighter than they expected. Planetary bodies usually darken over time as a result of chemical changes triggered by sunlight and cosmic ray impacts. But these moons reflect about 50% of all incident light, which indicates their water-ice covering is very clean. Kerberos orbits about 60,000km from Pluto and is the second- outermost of five moons. It sits between Nix and Hydra, and beyond the orbits of Styx and the much larger Charon, the dominant moon in the system. The newly released image of Kerberos was acquired by New Horizons' Lorri camera from a distance of just under 400,000km. The picture incorporates a number...

An image of warring foxes won 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

Warring fox Taken by beginner Don Gutoski, the photo catches the minute a red fox pulls away the corpse of its Arctic cousin taking after a savage assault in Canada's Wapusk National Park. "It's the best picture I've ever taken in my life," Don told. "It's the heads' symmetry, the bodies and the tails - even the demeanor on the appearances." The two creatures' extents cover at Wapusk, which embraces the shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba. What's more, if the bigger red gets a quick look at the Arctic inhabitant, it will attempt to originate before the northern species. Untamed life guides in the recreation center had talked about seeing the contention, yet this is thought to be one of the first situations where it has been archived on camera. Kathy Moran, who sat on the judging board, said the scene's awfulness was shockingly downplayed. "It doesn't appear to be bloody by any stretch of the imagination. On the off c...

The latest image of Pluto release from the New Horizons mission

The Nasa probe, which flew by the dwarf planet in July, continues to downlink its data, and as it comes in, the scientists get to work on it. The ripples stretch for many hundreds of km. It looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology," observed mission team member Bill McKinnon. This'll really take time to figure out; maybe it's some combination of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation driven by Pluto's faint sunlight," the Washington University, St Louis, scientist said in a US space agency release. The best way to look at "scales" is to browse the new high-resolution enhanced colour view of Pluto that has been made available (PNG file, 70MB). The features are on the far eastern edge.This super image comes from the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera on New Horizons. It combines blue, red and near infrared (NIR) images. The enhanced view will help decode the various geological and climatological processes that hav...