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Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera
installed on NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope during
Servicing Mission 4 in May
has delivered the most
detailed view of star birth
... > full story
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
Astronomers have tracked
down a gigantic, previously
unknown assembly of galaxies
located almost seven billion
light-years away from us.
The discovery, made possible
by combining two of the most
... > full story
Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-year-old Mystery
Nearly 100 years ago,
scientists detected the
first signs of cosmic rays
-- subatomic particles that
zip through space at nearly
... > full story
NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
Nearby galaxies undergoing a
furious pace of star
formation also emit lots of
gamma rays, say astronomers
using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray
... > full story
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Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
October 30, 2009 — The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ... > full story -
New Celestial Map Gives Directions For GPS
October 30, 2009 — Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates your ... > full story -
Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe
October 29, 2009 — Astronomers studied the most distant object yet seen in the Universe, a giant stellar blast from more than 13 billion years ago, and learned tantalizing facts about the blast itself and the ... > full story -
Gamma-ray Photon Race Ends In Dead Heat; Einstein Wins This Round
October 28, 2009 — A pair of gamma-ray photons -- one possessed of a million times the energy of the other -- arrived at virtually the same instant at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, after a ... > full story -
World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe
October 27, 2009 — A new "Roadrunner Universe" model requires a petascale computer because, like the universe, it's mind-bendingly large. The model's basic unit is a particle with a mass of approximately one billion ... > full story -
Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
October 23, 2009 — The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet
October 21, 2009 — Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ... > full story -
Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
October 19, 2009 — Astronomers are reporting the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS -- the spectrograph of the European ... > full story -
Bizarre Galaxy Is Result Of Pair Of Spiral Galaxies Smashing Together
October 14, 2009 — A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way ... > full story -
Asteroid Is Actually A Protoplanet, Study Of First High-resolution Images Of Pallas Confirms
October 13, 2009 — Pallas is in the gray area between a small asteroid and a planet, researchers report. Pallas lies in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars and is about the size of ... > full story
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