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HCN ice in Titan's high-altitude southern polar cloud

DOI: 10.1038/nature13789 Bibcode: 2014Natur.514...65D

Maltagliati, Luca; Vinatier, Sandrine; de Kok, Remco J. +2 more

Titan's middle atmosphere is currently experiencing a rapid change of season after northern spring arrived in 2009 (refs 1, 2). A large cloud was observed for the first time above Titan's southern pole in May 2012, at an altitude of 300 kilometres. A temperature maximum was previously observed there, and condensation was not expected for any of Ti…

2014 • Nature

Cassini 54

Reflection from the strong gravity regime in a lensed quasar at redshift z = 0.658

DOI: 10.1038/nature13031 Bibcode: 2014Natur.507..207R

Miller, J. M.; Reis, R. C.; Walton, D. J. +1 more

The co-evolution of a supermassive black hole with its host galaxy through cosmic time is encoded in its spin. At z > 2, supermassive black holes are thought to grow mostly by merger-driven accretion leading to high spin. It is not known, however, whether below z ~ 1 these black holes continue to grow by coherent accretion or in a chaotic manne…

2014 • Nature

XMM-Newton 50

Two γ-ray bursts from dusty regions with little molecular gas

DOI: 10.1038/nature13325 Bibcode: 2014Natur.510..247H

Kohno, K.; Nakanishi, K.; Tamura, Y. +4 more

Long-duration γ-ray bursts are associated with the explosions of massive stars and are accordingly expected to reside in star-forming regions with molecular gas (the fuel for star formation). Previous searches for carbon monoxide (CO), a tracer of molecular gas, in burst host galaxies did not detect any emission. Molecules have been detected as ab…

2014 • Nature

Herschel 39

Comet craft ready to wake

DOI: 10.1038/505269a Bibcode: 2014Natur.505..269G

Gibney, Elizabeth

Stakes high as European Space Agency waits for Rosetta orbiter to come out of hibernation.

2014 • Nature

Rosetta 2

Philae’s 64 hours of comet science yield rich data

DOI: 10.1038/515319a Bibcode: 2014Natur.515..319G

Gibney, Elizabeth

Comet lander is now hibernating, but has already altered our understanding of these objects.

2014 • Nature

Rosetta 1

Landing on a comet: A guide to Rosetta’s perilous mission

DOI: 10.1038/515172a Bibcode: 2014Natur.515..172G

Gibney, Elizabeth

A graphical guide identifies the dangers ahead for the Philae probe.

2014 • Nature

Rosetta 0

Lander to aim for comet’s ‘head’

DOI: 10.1038/513288a Bibcode: 2014Natur.513..288G

Gibney, Elizabeth

Touchdown site for Rosetta probe chosen unanimously.

2014 • Nature

Rosetta 0

Philae lander: Rename comet probe after Greek hero

DOI: 10.1038/515492f Bibcode: 2014Natur.515R.492F

Fisher, Len

2014 • Nature

Rosetta 0

A `kilonova' associated with the short-duration γ-ray burst GRB 130603B

DOI: 10.1038/nature12505 Bibcode: 2013Natur.500..547T

Fruchter, A. S.; Wiersema, K.; Levan, A. J. +4 more

Short-duration γ-ray bursts are intense flashes of cosmic γ-rays, lasting less than about two seconds, whose origin is unclear. The favoured hypothesis is that they are produced by a relativistic jet created by the merger of two compact stellar objects (specifically two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole). This is supported by indire…

2013 • Nature

eHST 660

A dust-obscured massive maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34

DOI: 10.1038/nature12050 Bibcode: 2013Natur.496..329R

Thomson, A. P.; Altieri, B.; Pérez-Fournon, I. +61 more

Massive present-day early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies probably gained the bulk of their stellar mass and heavy elements through intense, dust-enshrouded starbursts--that is, increased rates of star formation--in the most massive dark-matter haloes at early epochs. However, it remains unknown how soon after the Big Bang massive starbu…

2013 • Nature

Herschel 503