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Merging Antennae Galaxies Move Closer
New research on the Antennae
Galaxies shows that this
benchmark pair of
interacting galaxies is in
fact much closer than
previously thought -- 45
million light-years instead
... > full story
Part Of Universe's Missing Matter Discovered By XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory
ESA's orbiting X-ray
observatory XMM-Newton has
been used by a team of
international astronomers to
uncover part of the missing
... > full story
Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics
A team of scientists will
expend 22 million
computational hours during
the next year on one of the
world's most powerful
supercomputers, simulating
... > full story
Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes
Astrophysicists now say the
fate of stars that venture
too close to massive black
holes could be even more
violent than previously
believed. Not only are they
... > full story
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Searching The Heavens For Pulsars And Supermassive Black Holes
May 4, 2008 — A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in nature -- including pulsars, remnants of supernovae, and supermassive ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover New Type Of Pulsating White Dwarf Star
May 1, 2008 — Astronomers have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star, with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Called a "pulsating carbon white ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Pins Down Timer In Stellar Ticking Time Bomb
April 30, 2008 — Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. The explosions occur on a neutron star, which is ... > full story -
Ultra-dense Galaxies Found In Early Universe
April 29, 2008 — Astronomers looking at the universe's distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. These young galaxies are the equivalent of ... > full story -
Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly Immature
April 29, 2008 — Some of the oldest objects in the Universe may still have a long way to go, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These new results indicate that globular clusters might be ... > full story -
Galaxies Gone Wild: Dramatic Collisions Trigger Bursts Of Star Formation
April 27, 2008 — Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. ... > full story -
Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
April 24, 2008 — At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of ... > full story -
Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus?
April 21, 2008 — Could microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available? To answer that question, we need look no farther than our own planet ... > full story -
Stellar Birth In The Galactic Wilderness
April 18, 2008 — A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's ... > full story -
Gravity Wave 'Smoking Gun' Fizzles: Gravitational Radiation Can Be Produced More Than One Way
April 17, 2008 — Gravitational radiation -- widely expected to provide "smoking gun" proof for a theory of the early universe known as "inflation" -- can be produced by another mechanism, according to physics ... > full story
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