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Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe Hold 800 Trillion Suns
October 13, 2010 — Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of seven billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL ... > full story -
Giant Star Goes Supernova and Is Smothered by Its Own Dust
October 12, 2010 — A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. Researchers suspect that this odd event -- the first one of its kind ever ... > full story -
Wild 'Teenage' Galaxies Booming With Star Births
October 12, 2010 — Scientists in Denmark have been studying distant galaxies, which are among the most active star-forming galaxies in the Universe. They form around 1,000 new stars a year -- a 1,000 times more than ... > full story -
Universe Likes to Form Galaxies Similar to the Milky Way
October 11, 2010 — Galaxies like our own Milky Way formed easily and have also been the largest spiral galaxies in the universe for almost 4 billion ... > full story -
'Living Dinosaurs' in Space: Galaxies in Today's Universe Thought to Have Existed Only in Distant Past
October 7, 2010 — An astronomy student in Australia has found 'living dinosaurs' in space: galaxies in today's Universe that were thought to have existed only in the distant ... > full story -
Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe
October 7, 2010 — If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent, well, universal warming. The consequence was that fierce blasts of radiation from voracious black holes stunted ... > full story -
NASA's Webb Telescope MIRI Instrument Takes One Step Closer to Space
October 1, 2010 — A major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom. ... > full story -
Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug-of-War, Computer Simulation Shows
September 29, 2010 — The Magellanic Stream is an arc of hydrogen gas spanning more than 100 degrees of the sky behind the Milky Way's neighbor galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Our home galaxy has long ... > full story -
An Elegant Galaxy in an Unusual Light
September 22, 2010 — A new image taken with the powerful HAWK-I camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile shows the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 in infrared light. NGC 1365 is a ... > full story -
Planck's First Glimpse at Galaxy Clusters Uncovers a New Supercluster
September 16, 2010 — Surveying the microwave sky, Planck has obtained its very first images of galaxy clusters, amongst the largest objects in the Universe, by means of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, a characteristic ... > full story
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