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Stellar Monsters Do Not Collide: No Hope for a Spectacular Catastrophe
July 11, 2013 — One might expect that collisions between the remains of monstrous stars, with masses reaching 200-300 times that of our Sun, would be among the most spectacular phenomena in the Universe. Perhaps ... > full story -
Space-Time Is Not the Same for Everyone
July 9, 2013 — Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by quantum gravity has been studied for ... > full story -
Cosmic Radio Bursts Point to Cataclysmic Origins
July 5, 2013 — Mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from billions of light years away have left the scientists who detected them speculating about their origins. The burst energetics indicate that they ... > full story -
Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight
July 5, 2013 — Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. Gas is seen to fall inwards towards the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels star formation and drives the galaxy's ... > full story -
White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature
July 4, 2013 — Astronomers have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test the controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant. The ... > full story -
Space Study Opens Up New Opportunities to Explore Exotic Energy
July 4, 2013 — Answering the ultimate question to Life, Universe and Everything? Not quite, but an international team of scientists have conducted research that opens up new possibilities for exploring what to date ... > full story -
New Knowledge About Early Galaxies
July 3, 2013 — The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have ... > full story -
Dark Energy Survey Set to Seek out Supernovae
July 2, 2013 — The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10 billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ... > full story -
Intergalactic Magnifying Glasses Could Help Astronomers Map Galaxy Centers
June 30, 2013 — Astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant ... > full story -
Spiral Galaxies Like Milky Way Bigger Than Thought
June 27, 2013 — Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new ... > full story
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