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New Class Of Pulsars Solve Mystery Of Previously Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources
A new class of pulsars
detected by NASA's Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope is
solving the mystery of
previously unidentified
... > full story
Largest Ever Survey Of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed
Astronomers have completed
the largest ever survey
designed to find very
distant clusters of
galaxies. Named the Spitzer
Adaptation of the
... > full story
Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making
Astronomers have found a
binary star-disk system in
which each star is
surrounded by the kind of
dust disk that is frequently
the precursor of a planetary
... > full story
New Class Of Black Holes Discovered
A new class of black hole,
more than 500 times the mass
of the Sun, has been
discovered by an
international team of
astronomers. ... > full story
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Super-energetic Bursts Discovered Near Giant Black Hole
July 2, 2009 — Combining gamma-ray telescopes with the supersharp radio 'vision' of the Very Long Baseline Array showed astronomers the location from which very-high-energy gamma rays are emerging from the core ot ... > full story -
Dense Knots Of Cold Cosmic Dust -- Potential Birthplaces Of New Stars -- Discovered In Inner Regions Of The Milky Way
July 1, 2009 — Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust -- the ... > full story -
Milky Way's Particle Accelerators: Cosmic Rays Accelerated In Remnants Of Exploding Stars
June 26, 2009 — Astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators. They show that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded ... > full story -
Galaxies Coming Of Age In Cosmic Blobs
June 25, 2009 — The "coming of age" of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed, thanks to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. This discovery helps resolve the true nature of ... > full story -
Jets On Saturn's Moon Enceladus Not Geysers From Underground Ocean, One Group Of Researchers Say
June 24, 2009 — Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a new ... > full story -
World's Fastest And Most Sensitive Astronomical Camera
June 24, 2009 — The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1,500 finely exposed images per second even when ... > full story -
New Light Shed On 'Dark' Gamma-ray Bursts
June 21, 2009 — Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions of light-years away. Yet, for more than a decade, ... > full story -
Herschel’s Daring Test: A Glimpse Of Things To Come
June 20, 2009 — Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Scientists obtained images in ... > full story -
Betelgeuse, Red Supergiant In Constellation Orion, Has Shrunk By 15 Percent In 15 Years
June 16, 2009 — The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which is so large it would extend to Jupiter's orbit in our solar system, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to physicists. Since 1993, its ... > full story -
Rare Magnetar Discovered: Giant Eruption Reveals 'Dead' Star
June 16, 2009 — NASA's Swift satellite reported multiple blasts of radiation from a rare object known as a soft gamma repeater, or SGR. Astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the ... > full story
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