Astrophysics News

Posted May 9, 2008:

• Merging Antennae Galaxies Move Closer

Posted May 7, 2008:

• Part Of Universe's Missing Matter Discovered By XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory

Posted May 4, 2008:

• Searching The Heavens For Pulsars And Supermassive Black Holes

Posted May 3, 2008:

• Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Astronomers Discover New Type Of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

Posted April 30, 2008:

• NASA Satellite Pins Down Timer In Stellar Ticking Time Bomb

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Ultra-dense Galaxies Found In Early Universe
• Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly Immature

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Galaxies Gone Wild: Dramatic Collisions Trigger Bursts Of Star Formation

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus?

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Stellar Birth In The Galactic Wilderness

Posted April 17, 2008:

• Gravity Wave 'Smoking Gun' Fizzles: Gravitational Radiation Can Be Produced More Than One Way
• World's Newest And Fastest Survey Telescope Receives New Mirror

Posted April 16, 2008:

• Ghosts Of Galaxies: Lingering Star Streams Skirt Two Nearby Spiral Galaxies
• Milky Way's Giant Black Hole 'Awoke From Slumber' 300 Years Ago

Posted April 15, 2008:

• Hubble Pinpoints Location Of Record-breaking Cosmic Explosion

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Delta II Rocket Coming Together For NASA's GLAST Satellite Launch

Posted April 12, 2008:

• First Merger Of Three Black Holes Simulated On A Supercomputer

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere; Omega Centauri Looks Radiant In Infrared

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Coldest Brown Dwarf Ever Observed: Closing The Gap Between Stars And Planets
• NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon In Color And In 3D

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Rare Quasar Discovered That Produces More X-rays Than Thought Possible

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Do Dwarf Galaxies Favor MOND Over Dark Matter?
• Meteorites Delivered The 'Seeds' Of Earth's Left-hand Life, Experts Argue
• Focused Solar Explosions Get Hotter
• Hot, Bright, Massive Stars Have Complex Mixing Processes In Their Great Depths

Posted April 6, 2008:

• Astronomers View Distant Galaxies Evolving One Billion Years After The Big Bang

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe
• Newborn Brown Dwarfs Stir Up The Neighborhood
• Black Hole Discovered In Center Of Enigmatic Omega Centauri
• Graphene Gazing Gives Glimpse Of Foundations Of Universe

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Cosmologists Probe Mystery Of Dark Energy With South Pole Telescope
• Exploding Star Shows Rare View Of Early Stages Of A Supernova

Posted April 2, 2008:

• 2,500 Researchers, 1 Large Hadron Collider, 1 New Snapshot Of The Universe
• Smallest Black Hole Ever Discovered Has Amazing Tidal Force
• Stars Burst Into Life In The Early Universe
• Two Supernova Factories Found In The Milky Way

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Newly Discovered Galaxy Cluster In Early Stage Of Formation Is Farthest Away Ever Identified
• Star Gazing? The Moon Meets The Pleiades, And Saturn Will Be Beautiful In April
• Two Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary Systems Discovered: First Of Their Kind Ever Found
• Compressed Stars: Physicists Compress Unstable Nucleus Of Nickel 56 For First Time
• NASA's GLAST Satellite Gets Twin Solar Panels In Prep For Launch

Posted March 30, 2008:

• Why Matter Matters In The Universe

Posted March 28, 2008:

• Europe To Build State Of The Art Laboratory

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Astronomers Coordinating International Observatories In White-dwarf Watch

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