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Dwarf Galaxy Evolution: Reionization Alone Is Not Able to Stop Star Formation, Research Shows
September 10, 2010 — New research suggests that reionization alone is not able to stop star formation in dwarf galaxies, as had been ... > full story -
Astronomer Unveils the Mysteries of 'Green Pea' Galaxies
September 10, 2010 — First discovered in 2007 by amateur stargazers, the strange so-called Green Pea galaxies have now been shown to be extraordinary and extremely compact star cities that have low amounts of complex ... > full story -
Extreme X-Ray Source Suggests New Class of Black Hole
September 8, 2010 — Astronomers have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, which may herald a new type of black ... > full story -
A Nearby Galactic Exemplar
September 8, 2010 — ESO has released a spectacular new image of NGC 300, a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, and located in the nearby Sculptor Group of galaxies. Taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO's La ... > full story -
Hubble Observations of Supernova Reveal Composition of 'Star Guts' Pouring out
September 2, 2010 — Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space ... > full story -
Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666
September 1, 2010 — The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC ... > full story -
NASA's SOFIA Will Likely Help Solve Mysteries About Our Galaxy
August 25, 2010 — How were millions of young stars able to form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in the presence of an enormous black hole with a mass 4 million times that of the sun? This and other important ... > full story -
When Galaxies Collide: How the First Super-Massive Black Holes Were Born
August 25, 2010 — Astronomers believe they have discovered the origin of our universe's first super-massive black holes, which formed some 13 billion years ago. The discovery fills in a missing chapter of our ... > full story -
Galactic 'Super-Volcano' in Action
August 19, 2010 — A galactic "super-volcano" in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting and blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano is being driven by a giant black hole in the galaxy's center and preventing hundreds of ... > full story -
Ancient Galaxy Cluster Still Producing Stars
August 18, 2010 — In ongoing observations of one of the universe's earliest, most distant cluster of galaxies using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that a significant fraction of those ... > full story
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