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Astronomers Identify 12-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light Years Away
April 11, 2012 — Astronomers have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away from ... > full story -
NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions
April 5, 2012 — NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck ... > full story -
Cannibalistic Galaxy With a Powerful Heart
April 4, 2012 — Astronomers have provided a multi-wavelength view of the mysterious galaxy Centaurus A. The new image reveals further hints about its cannibalistic past and energetic processes going on in its ... > full storyMore: -
Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
April 4, 2012 — Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet ... > full story -
NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star
April 4, 2012 — Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, ... > full story -
Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter
April 2, 2012 — Scientists have looked for signals from dark matter by zeroing in on 10 small, faint galaxies that orbit our own. Although no signals have been detected, a novel analysis technique applied to two ... > full story -
Growing Up Supermassive: A Black Hole's Diet of Stars
April 2, 2012 — Astrophysicists have found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: They repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that ... > full story -
South Pole Telescope Homes in on Dark Energy, Neutrinos
April 2, 2012 — Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy -- the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for ... > full story -
Clocking an Accelerating Universe: First Results from BOSS
March 30, 2012 — First spectroscopic results from BOSS give the most detailed look yet at the time when dark energy turned on some six billion light years ago, as the expansion of the universe was slipping from the ... > full storyMore: -
Star Explodes and Turns Inside out
March 29, 2012 — A new X-ray study of the remains of an exploded star indicates that the supernova that disrupted the massive star may have turned it inside out in the process. Using very long observations of ... > full story -
Titanium Paternity Test Fingers Earth as Moon's Sole Parent
March 29, 2012 — A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to ... > full story -
Milky Way Image Reveals Detail of a Billion Stars
March 28, 2012 — More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in a new image. Large structures of the Milky Way galaxy, such as gas and dust clouds where stars have ... > full story
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