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Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera
installed on NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope during
Servicing Mission 4 in May
has delivered the most
detailed view of star birth
... > full story
Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
The combination of images
taken by three exceptional
telescopes, the ESO Very
Large Telescope on Cerro
Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m
telescope at ESO's La Silla
observatory and the NASA/ESA
... > full story
Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
A stunning new image reveals
one of our nearest galactic
neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy,
also known as NGC 6822. The
galaxy contains regions of
rich star formation and cur ... > full story
Heart Of A Galaxy Emits Gamma Rays
The H.E.S.S. telescope
system detects high-energy
rays from the starburst
region of a galactic system
outside the Milky Way. ... > full story
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New View Of Lagoon Nebula: GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3
September 28, 2009 — The third image of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. The latest image follows on from views, released over the last two weeks, of the sky as seen with the unaided eye and ... > full story -
Magnetic Fields Play Larger Role In Star Formation Than Previously Thought
September 11, 2009 — The simple picture of star formation calls for giant clouds of gas and dust to collapse inward due to gravity, growing denser and hotter until igniting nuclear fusion. In reality, forces other than ... > full story -
Warped Debris Disks Around Stars Are 'Blowin' In The Wind'
August 28, 2009 — The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now astronomers find that a star's motion through interstellar gas ... > full story -
Trifid Nebula: A Massive Star Factory
August 26, 2009 — A new image of the Trifid Nebula, shows just why it is a firm favorite of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. This massive star factory is so named for the dark dust bands that trisect its ... > full story -
A Look Into The Hellish Cradles Of Suns And Solar Systems
August 20, 2009 — New images delve into the heart of a cosmic cloud, called RCW 38, crowded with budding stars and planetary systems. There, young, titanic stars bombard fledgling suns and planets with powerful winds ... > full story -
Seeing The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes
August 20, 2009 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken its first shots of the cosmos since warming up and starting its second career. The infrared telescope ran out of coolant on May 15, 2009, more than ... > full story -
Particles As Tracers For Milky Way's Most Massive Explosions: 'Dark Matter' Origins Of Mysterious Flux Challenged
August 19, 2009 — Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of dark matter. But scientists in Sweden ... > full story -
New Class Of Astronomical Object: Super Planetary Nebulae
August 16, 2009 — A team of astronomers has discovered a new class of object which they call "Super Planetary Nebulae." The new objects are unusually strong radio sources. Whereas the existing population of planetary ... > full story -
Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula
August 5, 2009 — ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). This striking view is ablaze with a flurry of stars of all colors and brightnesses, some ... > full story -
Eagle Nebula: An Eagle Of Cosmic Proportions
July 17, 2009 — A new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas has been ... > full story
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