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The Stars Behind the Curtain
Astronomers have obtained a
new image of the giant
stellar nursery surrounding
NGC 3603, in which stars are
continuously being born.
Embedded in this scenic
nebula is one of the most
... > full story
Where Did Today's Spiral Galaxies Come From?
Using data from the NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope,
astronomers have created a
demographic census of galaxy
types and shapes from a time
before the Earth and the sun
... > full story
Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
Astronomers have found the
first clear evidence of a
binary quasar within a pair
of actively merging
galaxies. Binary quasars,
like other quasars, are
thought to be the product of
... > full story
Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
Galaxies throughout the
universe are ablaze with
star birth. But for a
nearby, small spiral galaxy,
the star-making party is
almost over. Astronomers
... > full story
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Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record
January 30, 2010 — Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the ... > full story -
Stunning New Image of Cat's Paw Nebula
January 24, 2010 — Astronomers have just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or NGC 6334. This complex region of gas and dust, where numerous massive stars are born, lies near ... > full story -
Spectacular X-Ray Tails Surprise Astronomers
January 23, 2010 — Astronomer were surprised to find two distinct "tails" found on a long tail of gas that is believed to be forming stars where few stars have been formed before. What is also unusual is the gas tail, ... > full story -
Cosmology: Weak Gravitational Lensing Improves Measurements of Distant Galaxies
January 21, 2010 — A cosmologist has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving the reliability of mass measurements of much ... > full story -
How Galaxies Form: New Research Resolves Conflict in Theory
January 14, 2010 — The cold dark matter theory has been used for more than 20 years to explain how the smooth universe from the big bang evolved into the galaxy-rich cosmos we see today. But there was a problem: the ... > full story -
How Galaxies Came to Be: Astronomers Explain Hubble Sequence
January 13, 2010 — For the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe. The scientists tracked the evolution of galaxies over thirteen billion years from the early ... > full story -
Galaxy Exposes Its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image
January 11, 2010 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from ... > full story -
Milky Way's Magnetic Attraction Ten Times Stronger Than Rest of Galaxy
January 7, 2010 — The magnetic field in the center of the Milky Way is at least 10 times stronger than the rest of the galaxy, according to new ... > full story -
New Panchromatic Capabilities of Hubble Reveal Unprecedented View of Universe
January 7, 2010 — More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in an unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The image was assembled from mosaics ... > full story -
Giant Intergalactic Gas Stream Longer Than Thought
January 5, 2010 — The Magellanic Stream, a giant flow of gas from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky Way, is much longer and older than previously thought. The new observations support a new insight on what ... > full story
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