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Detecting Dusty Clouds and Stars: New Radio Wave Technique Uncovers Shadows of Clouds and Stars in Milky Way's Center
January 7, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a new tool for detecting dusty clouds and stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy: simply take a picture using radio waves. Unlike in the optical, X-ray and infrared ... > full story -
Exocomets May Be as Common as Exoplanets
January 7, 2013 — Astronomers have found thousands of potential exoplanets and many stars with massive disks of gas and dust that suggest planets are forming, but not much of the stuff intermediate between dust and ... > full story -
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet, Analysis Finds
January 7, 2013 — The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about ... > full story -
Fifteen New Planets Hint at 'Traffic Jam' of Moons in Habitable Zone
January 7, 2013 — Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable ... > full story -
Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems, Astrophysicists Find
January 6, 2013 — Astrophysicists have shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits ... > full story -
Planets Abound: Astronomers Estimate That at Least 100 Billion Planets Populate the Galaxy
January 3, 2013 — Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But you're also seeing planets -- billions and billions of them. At least. That's the conclusion of a new study by astronomers that provides yet ... > full story -
How Young Star and Planets Grow Simultaneously
January 2, 2013 — The ALMA telescope gives astronomers their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation and helps resolve a mystery about how young planets and their infant star can both grow at the same ... > full storyMore: -
Galactic Geysers Fueled by Star Stuff
January 2, 2013 — Enormous outflows of charged particles from the center of our galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky and moving at supersonic speeds, have been detected and mapped with CSIRO's 64-m ... > full storyMore: -
Eulogy to Herschel
January 2, 2013 — With its 2160 liters of liquid helium about to run out, the Herschel Space Observatory will, by the end of March, become just another piece of space junk. The astronomer who leads one of the ... > full story -
An Image Gallery Gift from NASA's Swift
December 28, 2012 — Of the three telescopes carried by NASA's Swift satellite, only one captures cosmic light at energies similar to those seen by the human eye. Although small by the standards of ground-based ... > full story
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