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Merging Antennae Galaxies Move Closer
New research on the Antennae
Galaxies shows that this
benchmark pair of
interacting galaxies is in
fact much closer than
previously thought -- 45
million light-years instead
... > full story
Ultra-dense Galaxies Found In Early Universe
Astronomers looking at the
universe's distant past
found nine young, unusually
compact galaxies, each
weighing in at 200 billion
times the mass of the Sun.
... > full story
Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly Immature
Some of the oldest objects
in the Universe may still
have a long way to go,
according to a new study
using NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory. These new
... > full story
Galaxies Gone Wild: Dramatic Collisions Trigger Bursts Of Star Formation
Interacting galaxies are
found throughout the
Universe, sometimes as
dramatic collisions that
trigger bursts of star
... > full story
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Stellar Birth In The Galactic Wilderness
April 18, 2008 — A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's ... > full story -
Ghosts Of Galaxies: Lingering Star Streams Skirt Two Nearby Spiral Galaxies
April 16, 2008 — Astronomers have identified huge star streams in the outskirts of two nearby spiral galaxies. For the first time, they have obtained a panoramic overview of an example of galactic cannibalism similar ... > full story -
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere; Omega Centauri Looks Radiant In Infrared
April 11, 2008 — Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is ... > full story -
Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei
April 9, 2008 — An ambitious study of active and inactive galaxies has given new insights into the complex interaction between super-massive black holes at the heart of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star ... > full story -
Rare Quasar Discovered That Produces More X-rays Than Thought Possible
April 8, 2008 — XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes ... > full story -
Do Dwarf Galaxies Favor MOND Over Dark Matter?
April 7, 2008 — A detailed analysis of eight dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way indicates that their orbital behavior can be explained more accurately with Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) than by the rival, ... > full story -
Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe
April 4, 2008 — Using the most sensitive images ever obtained with the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, astronomers have found convincing evidence that galaxies which look old early in the history of the Universe ... > full story -
Black Hole Discovered In Center Of Enigmatic Omega Centauri
April 4, 2008 — Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. It turns out that the explanation behind Omega Centauri's peculiarities may be an elusive intermediate-mass black hole ... > full story -
Exploding Star Shows Rare View Of Early Stages Of A Supernova
April 3, 2008 — The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova -- SN 2006bc, ... > full story -
Stars Burst Into Life In The Early Universe
April 2, 2008 — New measurements from some of the most distant galaxies bolster the evidence that the strongest burst of star formation in the history of the Universe occurred about two billion years after the Big ... > full story
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