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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
Solar System Is Pretty Special, According To New Computer Simulation
Prevailing theoretical
models attempting to explain
the formation of the solar
system have assumed it to be
average. Now a new study by
... > 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
How The First Stars In The Universe Came Into Existence
How the first stars formed
from dust and gas has been a
burning question for years,
but a state-of-the-art
computer simulation now
offers the most detailed
... > full story
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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 -
Watching A 'New Star' Make The Universe Dusty
July 27, 2008 — Astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, and follow its evolution for more than 100 days. This provides the ... > full story -
Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-like Star Discovered
July 25, 2008 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the COROT mission has now observed more than 50 000 stars and is adding ... > full story -
Quiet Explosion: Object Intermediate Between Normal Supernovae And Gamma-ray Bursts Found
July 25, 2008 — Astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... > full story -
Brightest Star In The Galaxy Has New Competition
July 15, 2008 — A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," the bright stellar bulb was ... > full story -
What's My Age? Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays
July 11, 2008 — Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient open star cluster NGC 6791. The dilemma ... > 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 -
Cluster Satellites Listen To The Sounds Of Earth
June 29, 2008 — The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's ... > full story -
A Quark Star? Super-luminous Stellar Explosion Observed
June 29, 2008 — Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark ... > full story
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