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Spiral Galaxies: Exploring the Baffling Boxy Bulge
Just as many people are
surprised to find themselves
packing on unexplained
weight around the middle,
astronomers find the
evolution of bulges in the
... > full story
Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine
A new technique using
near-infrared images,
obtained with ESO's
3.58-metre New Technology
Telescope (NTT), allows
astronomers to see through
the opaque dust lanes of the
... > full story
Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
The Universe's infant
galaxies enjoyed rapid
growth spurts forming stars
like our Sun at a rate of up
to 50 stars a year,
... > full story
Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-Ray Source
While astronomers have
studied lightweight and
heavyweight black holes for
decades, the evidence for
black holes with
... > full story
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'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
November 9, 2009 — Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic ... > full story -
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
November 8, 2009 — The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby ... > full story -
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
November 4, 2009 — Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most ... > full story -
Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-Year-Old Mystery
November 3, 2009 — Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays -- subatomic particles that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. The most energetic cosmic rays hit with the punch ... > full story -
NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
November 2, 2009 — Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a ... > full story -
Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
October 30, 2009 — The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ... > full story -
Physicist Makes New High-Resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
October 29, 2009 — Cobbling together 3,000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its ... > full story -
Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
October 23, 2009 — The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light ... > full story -
Galactic Magnetic Fields May Control Boundaries Of Our Solar System
October 17, 2009 — Galactic magnetic fields had a far greater impact on Earth's history than previously conceived, and the future of our planet and others may depend, in part, on how the galactic magnetic fields change ... > full story -
Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
October 14, 2009 — A stunning new image reveals one of our nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, also known as NGC 6822. The galaxy contains regions of rich star formation and curious nebulae, such as the ... > full story
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