Astrophysics News

Posted November 23, 2009:

• Spiral Galaxies: Exploring the Baffling Boxy Bulge

Posted November 21, 2009:

• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

Posted November 17, 2009:

• 'Vampire Star': Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified

Posted November 16, 2009:

• Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-Suns

Posted November 14, 2009:

• 'Doomsday' 2012 Prediction Explained: Mayan Calendar Was Cyclical

Posted November 13, 2009:

• New Experiment Could Reveal Make-Up of the Universe
• Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres Found, but They're Stars Not Planets
• ESA Spacecraft May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery

Posted November 12, 2009:

• Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
• Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-Ray Source

Posted November 9, 2009:

• 'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies

Posted November 8, 2009:

• Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Rapid Supernova Could Be New Class Of Exploding Star
• The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton

Posted November 3, 2009:

• Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
• Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-Year-Old Mystery

Posted November 2, 2009:

• 'Ultra-Primitive' Particles Found In Comet Dust
• NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies

Posted November 1, 2009:

• E-Infrastructures Give Real Boost To Virtual Observatories

Posted October 30, 2009:

• Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
• New Celestial Map Gives Directions For GPS

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Physicist Makes New High-Resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
• Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe

Posted October 28, 2009:

• Gamma-Ray Photon Race Ends In Dead Heat; Einstein Wins This Round

Posted October 27, 2009:

• World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
• Is Unknown Force In Universe Acting On Dark Matter?

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet

Posted October 19, 2009:

• Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
• How The Moon Produces Its Own Water

Posted October 18, 2009:

• New View Of The Heliosphere: Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System

Posted October 17, 2009:

• Galactic Magnetic Fields May Control Boundaries Of Our Solar System

Posted October 16, 2009:

• Catching The Interstellar Wind: Spacecraft Finds Ribbon-Like Structure At Edge Of Heliosphere
• IBEX Satellite Finds Ribbon-Like Structure At Edge Of Heliosphere
• First IBEX Maps Reveal Fascinating Interactions Occurring At The Edge Of The Solar System
• Satellite Reveals Surprising Cosmic 'Weather' At Edge Of Solar System

Posted October 14, 2009:

• Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
• Bizarre Galaxy Is Result Of Pair Of Spiral Galaxies Smashing Together

Posted October 13, 2009:

• Asteroid Is Actually A Protoplanet, Study Of First High-Resolution Images Of Pallas Confirms

Posted October 6, 2009:

• Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts

Posted October 4, 2009:

• Heart Of A Galaxy Emits Gamma Rays

Posted October 2, 2009:

• Herschel Views Deep-Space Pearls On A Cosmic String
• New Kind Of Search For Dark Energy: First Light For BOSS

Posted September 30, 2009:

• 'Ram Pressure' Stripping Galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope Scientists Find
• James Webb Space Telescope Begins To Take Shape At Goddard

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