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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 -
New Approach to Cosmic Lithium in the Early Universe
September 7, 2012 — Astrophysicists have explored a discrepancy between the amount of lithium predicted by the standard models of elemental production during the Big Bang and the amount of lithium observed in the gas of ... > full story -
In Quest of the Cosmic Origins of Silver: Silver and Gold Materialized in Different Stellar Explosions
September 6, 2012 — In the quest for the cosmic origins of heavy elements, a researcher has established that silver can only have materialized during the explosion of clearly defined types of star. These are different ... > full story -
Surprisingly Bright Superbubble in Nearby Nebula
August 30, 2012 — A new composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000 light years from Earth. Many new stars, some of them ... > full story -
Why Aren't There More Stars?
August 20, 2012 — Astronomers may have found the answer to a universal question: Why aren’t there more ... > full story -
Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
August 16, 2012 — Astronomers have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite ... > full story
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