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Rapid Supernova Could Be New Class Of Exploding Star
Astronomers were looking
through seven-year-old data
when they chanced upon a
very strange supernova that
flashed and was gone in less
than a month, when 3-4
... > full story
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera
installed on NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope during
Servicing Mission 4 in May
has delivered the most
detailed view of star birth
... > full story
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
Evidence for a thin veil of
carbon has been found on the
neutron star in the
Cassiopeia A supernova
remnant. This discovery
resolves a ten-year mystery
... > full story
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
Astronomers have tracked
down a gigantic, previously
unknown assembly of galaxies
located almost seven billion
light-years away from us.
The discovery, made possible
by combining two of the most
... > full story
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The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars
November 6, 2009 — The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March ... > full story -
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
November 3, 2009 — A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled. These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support ... > full story -
Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-year-old Mystery
November 3, 2009 — Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays -- subatomic particles that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. The most energetic cosmic rays hit with the punch ... > full story -
'Ultra-primitive' Particles Found In Comet Dust
November 2, 2009 — Dust samples collected from the stratosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, scientists report. The dust includes presolar grains and material from ... > full story -
NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
November 2, 2009 — Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a ... > full story -
E-Infrastructures Give Real Boost To Virtual Observatories
November 1, 2009 — New tools and systems developed by European researchers are helping astronomers access data centres from anywhere in the world. From charting new stars to finding new meaning in old stellar objects, ... > full story -
Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
October 30, 2009 — The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ... > full story -
New Celestial Map Gives Directions For GPS
October 30, 2009 — Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates your ... > full story -
Physicist Makes New High-resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
October 29, 2009 — Cobbling together 3,000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its ... > full story -
Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe
October 29, 2009 — Astronomers studied the most distant object yet seen in the Universe, a giant stellar blast from more than 13 billion years ago, and learned tantalizing facts about the blast itself and the ... > full story
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