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Smoking Gun Found For Gamma-Ray Burst In Milky Way
June 3, 2004 — Combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared observations with the Palomar 200-inch telescope have uncovered evidence that a gamma-ray burst, one of nature's most ... > full story -
Theory Proposes New View Of Sun And Earth's Creation
May 21, 2004 — A new theory challenges conventional wisdom, arguing instead that the Sun formed in a violent nebular environment - a byproduct of the chaos wrought by intense ultraviolet radiation and powerful ... > full story -
The Remarkable Red Rectangle: A Stairway To Heaven?
May 12, 2004 — Astronomers may not have observed the fabled 'Stairway to Heaven,' but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying ... > full story -
Demise In Ice And Fire: New Hubble Image of 'Bug Nebula'
May 3, 2004 — The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot dying star smothered in a blanket of ... > full story -
Invisible Giants Exposed In New Spitzer Image
April 14, 2004 — Hidden behind a curtain of dusty darkness lurks one of the most violent pockets of star birth in our galaxy. Called DR21, this stellar nursery is so draped in cosmic dust that it appears invisible to ... > full story -
Titan Casts Revealing Shadow
April 6, 2004 — A rare celestial event was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as Titan -- Saturn's largest moon and the only moon in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere -- crossed in front of ... > full story -
Puzzling Supernova: White Dwarf Explodes Inside A Dense Circumstellar Disk
March 23, 2004 — By measuring polarized light from an unusual exploding star, an international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has worked out the first detailed picture of a Type Ia supernova and the ... > full story -
NASA Creates Portrait Of Life And Death In The Universe
March 9, 2004 — In a small galaxy lies a luminous cloud of gas and dust, called a nebula, which houses a family of newborn stars. If not for the death of a massive star millions of years ago, this stellar nursery ... > full story -
Astrophysics Use Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics To Determine Large Stars Formed Like Our Sun
February 27, 2004 — For the first time, scientists from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore, in conjunction with astrophysicists from the California Institute of Technology, UC Santa Cruz, the National Science ... > full story -
Spitzer Telescope Sends A Rose For Valentine's Day
February 13, 2004 — Out of the dark and dusty cosmos comes an unusual valentine — a stellar nursery resembling a shimmering pink rosebud. This cluster of newborn stars, called a reflection nebula, was captured by ... > full story
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