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Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine
A new technique using
near-infrared images,
obtained with ESO's
3.58-metre New Technology
Telescope (NTT), allows
astronomers to see through
the opaque dust lanes of the
... > full story
'Vampire Star': Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
Using ESO's Very Large
Telescope and its ability to
obtain images as sharp as if
taken from space,
astronomers have made the
first time-lapse movie of a
... > full story
Bubbling Ball of Gas: SUNRISE Telescope Delivers Spectacular Pictures of Sun's Surface
The Sun is a bubbling mass.
Packages of gas rise and
sink, lending the sun its
grainy surface structure,
its granulation. Dark spots
... > full story
Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
The Universe's infant
galaxies enjoyed rapid
growth spurts forming stars
like our Sun at a rate of up
to 50 stars a year,
... > full story
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Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-Ray Source
November 10, 2009 — While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers find that ... > full story -
'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
November 9, 2009 — Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic ... > full story -
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System
November 9, 2009 — Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young star with ... > full story -
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
November 8, 2009 — 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 in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby ... > full story -
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
November 4, 2009 — 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
November 3, 2009 — Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays -- subatomic particles that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. The most energetic cosmic rays hit with the punch ... > full story -
NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
November 2, 2009 — Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a ... > full story -
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
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