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This Is Not a Pipe: Curious Dark Pipe Nebula Seen as Never Before
August 15, 2012 — Just as René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called ... > full story -
Hubble's Close Encounter With the Tarantula
August 11, 2012 — Turning its eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up of the outskirts of the main cloud of the ... > full story -
Astronomers Crack Mystery of the 'Monster' Stars
August 7, 2012 — In 2010 scientists discovered four ‘monster’ sized stars, with the heaviest more than 300 times as massive as our Sun. Despite their incredible luminosity, these exotic objects, located ... > full story -
Fingering the Culprit That Polluted the Solar System
August 2, 2012 — For decades it has been thought that a shock wave from a supernova explosion triggered the formation of our Solar System. The shock wave also injected material from the exploding star into a cloud of ... > full story -
A Blue Whirlpool in the River: Tranquil Galaxy Home to Violent Events
August 1, 2012 — A new image taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive spiral lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of ... > full story -
The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image
July 3, 2012 — A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is part of the Orion complex, a turbulent ... > full story -
Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found?
June 29, 2012 — The fastest moving pulsar may have been found about 30,000 light years from Earth. This object is known as IGR J1104-6103 and may be racing away from a supernova remnant at about 6 million miles per ... > full story -
Scientists Find New Primitive Mineral in Meteorite
June 26, 2012 — In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still ... > full story -
Very Large Telescope Takes a Close Look at the War and Peace Nebula
June 20, 2012 — ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called the War and Peace Nebula. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds ... > full story -
Cosmic Calculations for Exploring Where Stars Are Born
May 31, 2012 — Astrophysicists can now analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and dust where stars are born more accurately. New research has solved equations of quantum mechanics to describe more precisely the ... > full story
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