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Colorful Star Birth Region Near Tarantula Nebula Unveiled On Hubble's 100,000th Orbit Milestone
During Hubble's 100,000th
orbit around the Earth, it
peered into a small portion
of the nebula near the star
cluster NGC 2074. The region
... > full story
Clumps And Streams Of Dark Matter May Lie In Inner Regions Of Milky Way
Using one of the most
powerful supercomputers in
the world to simulate the
halo of dark matter that
envelopes our galaxy,
... > full story
Thousands Of Globular Clusters Identified In Virgo Cluster Of Galaxies
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope has identified
thousands of globular
clusters -- more than 5
billion years old -- in the
... > full story
'Cosmic Ghost' Discovered By Volunteer Astronomer In Archived Images Of Night Sky
When astronomers enlisted
public support in cataloging
galaxies, they never
envisioned the strange
object Hanny van Arkel found
... > full story
- Colorful Star Birth Region Near Tarantula Nebula Unveiled On Hubble's 100,000th Orbit Milestone
- Clumps And Streams Of Dark Matter May Lie In Inner Regions Of Milky Way
- Thousands Of Globular Clusters Identified In Virgo Cluster Of Galaxies
- 'Cosmic Ghost' Discovered By Volunteer Astronomer In Archived Images Of Night Sky
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Astronomers Describe The Bar Scene At The Beginning Of The Universe
July 31, 2008 — Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. Astronomers have found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years, indicating that spiral galaxies evolve in ... > full story -
Largest Sample Of Very Distant Galaxies Ever Seen Provide New Insights Into Early Universe
July 24, 2008 — New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found ... > full story -
Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
July 22, 2008 — The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The fluffy-looking galaxy, officially named Messier 101, is dominated by a mishmash of spiral ... > full story -
New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes
July 17, 2008 — How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... > full story -
Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found In Distant Universe
July 10, 2008 — Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy ... > full story -
Hubble Sees Stars And A Stripe In Celestial Fireworks
July 2, 2008 — A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section ... > full story -
Radio Telescopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism
June 23, 2008 — Using radio telescopes, astronomers have solved a mystery of how the gigantic black holes at the cores of active galaxies known as Seyfert galaxies get their "food." While visible-light images showed ... > full story -
Slimmer Milky Way Galaxy Revealed By New Measurements
June 19, 2008 — The Milky Way Galaxy has lost weight. A lot of weight. About a trillion Suns' worth, according to an international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), whose discovery has ... > full story -
Ultraviolet Gives View Inside Real ‘Death Star’
June 13, 2008 — Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star giving vital evidence of how stars turn into supernovae. combined data from ground-bound telescopes ... > full story -
Hubble’s Sweeping View Of The Coma Galaxy Cluster
June 12, 2008 — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe. Hubble's Advanced Camera for ... > full story
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