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VST Looks at the Leo Triplet -- And Beyond
July 27, 2011 — A huge image, from the new VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and its camera OmegaCAM at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory, shows a triplet of bright galaxies in the constellation of ... > full story -
Exoplanet Aurora: An out-of-This-World Sight
July 21, 2011 — Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living ... > full story -
Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy
July 21, 2011 — The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations. They show stars and structure in the galaxy's disc, the halo of stars that surrounds it, and a stream of stars ... > full story -
Cosmic Superbubble Carved by Stellar Winds from Bright Young Stars and Supernova Shockwaves
July 20, 2011 — ESO's Very Large Telescope captured a striking view of the nebula around the star cluster NGC 1929 within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. A colossal example of ... > full story -
New Planets Feature Young Star and Twin Neptunes
July 14, 2011 — Scientists have discovered 10 new planets. Amongst them is one orbiting a star perhaps only a few tens of million years old, twin Neptune-sized planets, and a rare Saturn-like ... > full story -
Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance
July 13, 2011 — White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these white dwarfs are so near ... > full story -
Stardust in Our Backyard Provides New Clues to Galaxy Evolution
July 7, 2011 — New data from Herschel Space Observatory reveal surprisingly large amounts of cold dust in the remnant of the famous supernova SN1987A, which astronomers observed 24 years ago in the Large Magellanic ... > full storyMore: -
Eye of Gaia: Billion-Pixel Camera to Map Milky Way
July 6, 2011 — The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas
June 30, 2011 — Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant, early ... > full story -
Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion
June 30, 2011 — Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, a new nebula view brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty ... > full story
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