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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
October 9, 2012 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing ... > full story -
How Pulsars Slow Down With Age
October 8, 2012 — Researchers have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star which was formed from the remains ... > full story -
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
October 5, 2012 — NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the ... > full story -
The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death Than Life
October 4, 2012 — A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in a combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA ... > full story -
Supernova SN 1006: Cause of Brightest Stellar Event in Recorded History Illuminated
September 27, 2012 — Between April 30 and May 1 of the year 1006, the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history occurred: a supernova, or stellar explosion, that was widely observed by various civilizations from ... > full story -
Rich Colors of a Cosmic Seagull
September 26, 2012 — A new image from the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory shows part of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas, formally called Sharpless 2-292, seems to ... > full story -
Hubble Catches Glowing Gas and Dark Dust in a Side-on Spiral
September 24, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a sharp image of NGC 4634, a spiral galaxy seen exactly side-on. Its disk is slightly warped by ongoing interactions with a nearby galaxy, and it is ... > full story -
First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster
September 14, 2012 — Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. The findings offer the best evidence yet that planets can sprout up in dense stellar ... > full story -
A Celestial Witch’s Broom? A New View of the Pencil Nebula
September 12, 2012 — The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova ... > full story -
Was Kepler's Supernova Unusually Powerful?
September 11, 2012 — A new analysis of Kepler's supernova suggests that the supernova explosion was not only more powerful, but might have also occurred at a greater distance, than previously ... > full story
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