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NASA's Observatories May Unravel 400-Year Old Supernova Mystery
October 7, 2004 — Modern astronomers, using NASA's three orbiting Great Observatories, are unraveling the mysteries of the expanding remains of Kepler's supernova, the last such object seen to explode in our ... > full story -
Deepest Image Of Exploded Star Uncovers Bipolar Jets
August 24, 2004 — A spectacular new image of Cassiopeia A released today from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has nearly 200 times more data than the "First Light" Chandra image of this object made five ... > full story -
Hubble Peers Inside A Celestial Geode
August 16, 2004 — In this unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode - a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from ... > full story -
Dying Star Goes Out With A Ring
August 10, 2004 — A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious doughnut-shaped ... > full story -
Chandra Sheds New Light On McNeil's Nebula
July 29, 2004 — The X-ray/optical comparison of the region surrounding McNeil's Nebula shows that the position of a source detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is coincident with that of a bright ... > full story -
Unique Observations Of Newborn Star Provide Information On Solar System’s Origin
July 22, 2004 — A new study has caught a newborn star similar to the sun in a fiery outburst. X-ray observations of the flare-up, which are the first of their kind, are providing important new information about the ... > full story -
Hubble Studies Generations Of Star Formation In Neighbouring Galaxy
July 2, 2004 — Our neighbourhood galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) lies in the Constellation of Dorado and is sprinkled with a number of regions harbouring recent and ongoing star ... > full story -
To Grow, Stars And Planets Need Space Dust . . . And Formaldehyde?
July 1, 2004 — Scientists at Ohio State University have found that a formaldehyde-based chemical is 100 times more common in parts of our galaxy than can be ... > full story -
Chandra Turns Up The Heat In The Milky Way Center
June 23, 2004 — A long look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed new evidence that extremely hot gas exists in a large region at the center of the Milky Way. The intensity and spectrum of the ... > full story -
FUSE Pierces The Veil: Satellite Pins Down Distance To Important Exploded Star
June 4, 2004 — The Veil Nebula, a delicate network of glowing gaseous filaments in the northern constellation of Cygnus the Swan, has long been a favorite of both amateur and professional astronomers. Part of a ... > full story
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