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Astronomers Witness Birth of Milky Way's Most Massive Star
July 10, 2013 — Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from ... > full story -
Cosmic Dust Belts Without Dust
July 8, 2013 — Planets and asteroids, red giants and brown dwarfs – there are all kinds of objects in our Universe. Debris disks are among them. These are belts consisting of countless dust particles and ... > full story -
Mysterious Radio Flashes May Be Farewell Greetings from Massive Stars Collapsing Into Black Holes
July 5, 2013 — Mysterious bright radio flashes that appear for only a brief moment on the sky and do not repeat could be the final farewell greetings of a massive star collapsing into a black hole, astronomers ... > full story -
White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature
July 4, 2013 — Astronomers have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test the controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant. The ... > full story -
Space Study Opens Up New Opportunities to Explore Exotic Energy
July 4, 2013 — Answering the ultimate question to Life, Universe and Everything? Not quite, but an international team of scientists have conducted research that opens up new possibilities for exploring what to date ... > full story -
New Knowledge About Early Galaxies
July 3, 2013 — The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have ... > full story -
Inseparable Galactic Twins
July 2, 2013 — Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one ... > full story -
Astronomer Uncovers the Hidden Identity of an Exoplanet
July 1, 2013 — Hovering about 70 light-years from Earth –- that's "next door" by astronomical standards –– is a star astronomers call HD 97658, which is almost bright enough to see with the naked ... > full story -
Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets
July 1, 2013 — A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ... > full story -
NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story
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