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Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery
July 12, 2010 — When a star explodes as a supernova, it shines so brightly that it can be seen from millions of light-years away. One particular supernova variety -- Type Ia -- brightens and dims so predictably that ... > full story -
Rain of Giant Gas Clouds Create Active Galactic Nuclei: New Research Explains How Galaxy Centers Light Up
July 8, 2010 — Galaxies like our own were built billions of years ago from a deluge of giant clouds of gas, some of which continue to rain down. Now new calculations tie the rain of giant clouds of gas to active ... > full story -
Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks
July 7, 2010 — Like a fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust -- the raw material for new star ... > full story -
Newborn Stars Discovered in Dark Cosmic Cloud
July 7, 2010 — A wave of massive star formation appears to have begun within a mysterious dark cloud in the Milky Way. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a secluded birthplace for stars within a wispy, ... > full story -
Black Hole Blows Big Bubble
July 7, 2010 — Combining observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from ... > full story -
Planck Unveils the Universe: First All-Sky Image Provides New Insight Into How Stars and Galaxies Form
July 5, 2010 — The European Space Agency's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came ... > full story -
'Galactic Archaeologists' Find Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars
June 29, 2010 — Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to ... > full story -
Galaxy Encounter Fires Up Quasar
June 24, 2010 — Using two of the world's largest telescopes, astronomers have found evidence of a collision between galaxies driving intense activity in a highly luminous quasar. The scientists used the Very Large ... > full story -
Hubble Captures Bubbles and Baby Stars
June 22, 2010 — A spectacular new Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region — highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail
June 21, 2010 — NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the neighboring Virgo cluster of ... > full story
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