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Sun's Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A
February 20, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun. The finding is ... > full story -
Sweeping Dust from a Cosmic Lobster
February 20, 2013 — Located around 8000 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), NGC 6357 -- sometimes nicknamed the Lobster Nebula due to its appearance in visible-light images -- is a region ... > full story -
Hubble Sees Cosmic 'Flying V' of Merging Galaxies
February 15, 2013 — The Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of a large "flying V" that is actually two distinct objects -- a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC ... > full story -
Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole, Study Suggests
February 13, 2013 — New data suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter ... > full story -
'A Drop of Ink on the Luminous Sky:' Wide Field Imager Snaps Cosmic Gecko
February 13, 2013 — This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky -- the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region ... > full story -
NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars
February 7, 2013 — Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. Every 25.34 days, the object, ... > full story -
The Last Big Bump Before a Supernova Explodes
February 6, 2013 — Astronomers have found the first causal evidence that massive stars shed huge amounts of material in a "penultimate outburst" before they finally detonate as Type IIn supernovae. After characterizing ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets May Be Next Door, Kepler Data Suggest
February 6, 2013 — Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common ... > full story -
The Wings of the Seagull Nebula
February 6, 2013 — A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a section of a cloud of dust and glowing gas called the Seagull Nebula. These wispy red clouds form part of the "wings" of the celestial bird ... > full story -
WISE Space Telescope Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword
February 5, 2013 — The tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or ... > full story
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