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Spacetime Ripples from Dying Black Holes Could Help Reveal How They Formed
September 17, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a new property of black holes: their dying tones could reveal the cosmic crash that produced ... > full story -
World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye, Records First Images in Hunt for Dark Energy
September 17, 2012 — Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed ... > full story -
First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster
September 14, 2012 — Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. The findings offer the best evidence yet that planets can sprout up in dense stellar ... > full story -
Nanoparticles: Two-Faced Materials Boost Hydrogen Production
September 12, 2012 — Inexpensive hybrid metal and oxide nanostructures prove to be a catalyst that enhance sunlight-powered hydrogen production, researchers have ... > full story -
A Celestial Witch’s Broom? A New View of the Pencil Nebula
September 12, 2012 — The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova ... > full story -
Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers
September 12, 2012 — Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according to a team of astronomers. After a two-year study, scientists conclude that the ... > full story -
Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
September 11, 2012 — At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Powerful gravitational forces from a supermassive black hole twist and warp the fabric of ... > full story -
Was Kepler's Supernova Unusually Powerful?
September 11, 2012 — A new analysis of Kepler's supernova suggests that the supernova explosion was not only more powerful, but might have also occurred at a greater distance, than previously ... > full story -
Public Maps out an A to Z of Galaxies
September 11, 2012 — Members of the public have constructed an A to Z of galaxies in the night sky. Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying ... > full story -
New Approach to Cosmic Lithium in the Early Universe
September 7, 2012 — Astrophysicists have explored a discrepancy between the amount of lithium predicted by the standard models of elemental production during the Big Bang and the amount of lithium observed in the gas of ... > full story
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