Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
361 to 370 of 506 stories
view headlines only
-
Large And Small Stars In Harmonious Coexistence
August 14, 2006 — The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large ... > full story -
A Sub-Stellar Jonah: Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed
August 14, 2006 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colors, orbit each other. One is a rather hot white dwarf, weighing ... > full story -
Planet-Forming Disks Might Put The Brakes On Stars
July 24, 2006 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround. Young stars are full ... > full story -
Sub-Millimetre Astronomy In Full Swing On Southern Skies
July 20, 2006 — The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 12-m sub-millimetre telescope lives up to the ambitions of the scientists by providing access to the "Cold Universe" with unprecedented sensitivity and image ... > full story -
Young Supernova Remnants Not Dusty Enough, According To Astronomers
June 7, 2006 — The dust ejected by the explosions of supermassive stars is thought to be the main source of fuel for new stars. But all supernova remnants in our galaxy have too little dust compared with model ... > full story -
Case Of The Neutron Star With A Wayward Wake
June 1, 2006 — A long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed important new details of a neutron star that is spewing out a wake of high-energy particles as it races through space. The deduced ... > full story -
First Pictures From The Map Of The Universe Mission
May 22, 2006 — An ambitious mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to make a new, high resolution map of the universe has just successfully returned its first pictures, and UK team members are ... > full story -
Magellanic Gemstones In The Southern Sky
April 19, 2006 — Hubble has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling sets of gemstones in the southern sky. Two new ... > full story -
Cosmic Spider Is Good Mother
April 7, 2006 — Hanging above the Large Magellanic Cloud -- one of our closest galaxies -- in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. This is now possible with ... > full story -
Nearby Dust Clouds In The Milky Way
April 4, 2006 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible for the formation of stars in ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,433
more 
