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Bars Kill Spiral Galaxies, Astronomers and Volunteers Discover
November 8, 2010 — With the help of the army of volunteers working on the Galaxy Zoo 2 'citizen science' project, an international team of scientists has discovered that the bars found in many spiral galaxies could be ... > full story -
Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow of Dead Quasar
November 3, 2010 — Astronomers have discovered that the strange-looking object discovered two years ago as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project, called "Hanny's Voorwerp," is a large cloud of glowing gas ... > full story -
Spiral Galaxies Stripped Bare
October 27, 2010 — Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in images from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the ... > full story -
Precocious Galaxy Cluster Identified by Chandra
October 26, 2010 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an unusual galaxy cluster that contains a bright core of relatively cool gas surrounding a quasar called 3C 186. This is the most distant such object yet ... > full story -
Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years Into the Future
October 26, 2010 — Astronomers are used to looking millions of years into the past. Now scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look thousands of years into the future. Looking at the heart of Omega ... > full story -
Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured: Faint Glow from When the Universe Was Only 600 Million Years Old
October 20, 2010 — A European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analyzing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have ... > full story -
Star, Not So Bright: Model Explains Evolution of Unusual Black Hole Binary System
October 20, 2010 — Astronomers have puzzled over the oddities of the X-ray binary system M33 X-7, but no one could explain all of its features. Now researchers have. They have produced a model of the system's ... > full story -
The Many Infrared 'Personalities' of the Sculptor Galaxy
October 18, 2010 — The Sculptor galaxy is shown in different infrared hues, in a new mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The main picture is a composite of infrared light captured with all ... > full story -
Astronomer Leverages Supercomputers to Study Black Holes, Galaxies
October 14, 2010 — Astronomer Stelios Kazantzidis leveraged the powerful resources of the Ohio Supercomputer Center to simulate and study several cosmological phenomena. His recent investigations revealed that ... > full story -
Galaxy Growth Spurts Explained: Young Galaxies Can Grow by Sucking in Cool Gas
October 13, 2010 — New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, provided direct evidence that young galaxies can grow by sucking in the cool gas around them and using it as fuel for the ... > full story
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