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In the Dragonfish's Mouth: The Next Generation of Superstars to Stir Up Our Galaxy
December 2, 2011 — Astronomers have found the most numerous batch of young, supermassive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundreds of the most massive kind -blue stars ... > full story -
Strange New 'Species' of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered
December 1, 2011 — In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover New Exoplanet Similar in Size to Earth; Planet Kepler-21b Found Using Space and Ground-Based Observations
November 30, 2011 — The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where ... > full story -
NASA's Swift Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual Personality
November 30, 2011 — A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual ... > full storyMore: -
In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt 'Signal of Impending Doom'
November 30, 2011 — An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes ... > full story -
In the Heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi Reveals a Cosmic-Ray Cocoon
November 28, 2011 — The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at ... > full story -
One Promising Puzzle Piece for Confirming Dark Matter Now Seems Unlikely Fit
November 28, 2011 — In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA detected a curious excess of antimatter positrons -- a startling discovery that could have been a sign of the existence of dark matter. With assistance from the ... > full story -
Astronomers Take a Photograph of the Youngest Supernova Right After Its Explosion
November 24, 2011 — Astronomers have obtained a never-before achieved radio astronomical photograph of the youngest supernova. Fourteen days after the explosion of a star in the galaxy Galàxia del Remolí ... > full story -
Physicists Set Strongest Limit on Mass of Dark Matter
November 23, 2011 — Physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. The researchers report that dark matter must have a ... > full story -
Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers, NASA's Hubble Confirms
November 17, 2011 — New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This ... > full storyMore:
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