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Universe's Most Massive Stars Can Form in Near Isolation, New Study Finds
December 21, 2010 — New observations by astronomers add weight to the theory that the most massive stars in the universe could form essentially anywhere, including in near isolation; they don't need a large stellar ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Celestial Bauble
December 14, 2010 — Hubble has spotted a festive bauble of gas in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion that took place four centuries ago, this sphere of ... > full story -
WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared Light
December 10, 2010 — A circular rainbow appears like a halo around an exploded star in a new view of the IC 443 nebula from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. When massive stars die, they explode in ... > full story -
Searching the Heavens for Newborn Stars: NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Ready to Take Flight
December 1, 2010 — SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is ready to take off into the heavens for its first science flight this week. Astronomers will use the Faint Object InfraRed Camera for ... > full story -
Astronomers Find 'Rosetta Stone' for T-Dwarf Stars
November 22, 2010 — Astronomers have discovered a unique and exotic star system with a very cool methane-rich (or T-) dwarf star and a 'dying' white dwarf stellar remnant in orbit around each other. The system is a ... > full story -
Hubble Captures New Star Birth in an Ancient Galaxy
November 19, 2010 — Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are helping to show that ... > full story -
WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen in Starry Sea: Dying Star Surrounded by Fluorescing Gas, Unusual Rings
November 18, 2010 — A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos -- ... > full story -
Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved
November 18, 2010 — In the local group of galaxies that includes the Andromeda Nebula and our Milky Way, there are about 100 billion stars. According to astronomers' calculations, there should be many more. Now, ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole
November 15, 2010 — Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... > full story -
Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
October 27, 2010 — Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the little carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space between ... > full story
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