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Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos
June 11, 2013 — Nearly a decade ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic ... > full story -
Scientists Size Up Universe's Most Lightweight Dwarf Galaxy
June 10, 2013 — The least massive galaxy in the known universe has now been measured, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside
June 5, 2013 — New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, far from its crowded ... > full story -
Cat's Paw Nebula 'Littered' With Baby Stars
June 5, 2013 — Most skygazers recognize the Orion Nebula, one of the closest stellar nurseries to Earth. Although it makes for great views in backyard telescopes, the Orion Nebula is far from the most prolific ... > full story -
Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies
June 3, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major ... > full story -
Solar System's Milky Way Neighborhood Gets More Respect
June 3, 2013 — Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research indicates that the Local ... > full story -
Hubble Sees the Messy Result of a Galactic Collision
June 1, 2013 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies -- a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy. The ... > full story -
'Population Census' of Galaxies Buried in Dust
May 31, 2013 — Conventional research on distant galaxies have been carried out mainly with visible light and near infrared light. However, it is possible that many galaxies in the universe have been overlooked as ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation
May 28, 2013 — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the image of an unusual galaxy -- a beautiful, glittering swirl named, rather un-poetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf ... > full story -
Cosmic Swirly Straws: Galaxies Fed by Funnels of Fuel
May 24, 2013 — Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws. The results show that cold gas -- fuel for stars ... > full story
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