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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
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
Evidence for a thin veil of
carbon has been found on the
neutron star in the
Cassiopeia A supernova
remnant. This discovery
resolves a ten-year mystery
... > 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
Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
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
... > full story
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The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars
November 6, 2009 — The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March ... > full story -
Physicist Makes New High-resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
October 29, 2009 — Cobbling together 3,000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its ... > 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 -
Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
October 24, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > 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 -
Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
October 14, 2009 — A stunning new image reveals one of our nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, also known as NGC 6822. The galaxy contains regions of rich star formation and curious nebulae, such as the ... > 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 -
Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts
October 6, 2009 — New research based on 3-D simulations explains why dirty stars -- those with a high abundance of heavy elements, or high metallicity -- tend to have accompanying solar ... > full story -
Herschel Views Deep-space Pearls On A Cosmic String
October 2, 2009 — Europe's Herschel space telescope has delivered spectacular vistas of cold gas clouds lying near the plane of the Milky Way, revealing intense, unexpected activity. The dark, cool region is dotted ... > full story -
'Ram Pressure' Stripping Galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope Scientists Find
September 30, 2009 — A newly released set of Hubble Space Telescope images highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process known as "ram pressure stripping", which can result in ... > full story
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