STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)

On and around October 31, 2017, events around the world will celebrate the hunt for the universe's unseen "dark matter." Dark Matter Day events will engage the ...

Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The astronomers suspect that multiple stars-to-be share the same star formation disk, but the precise process is still a puzzle. The article with their findings...

Radio astronomers peer deep into the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The image shows ammonia molecules within a 50-light-year long filament detected through radio observations made with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in ...

GBT Captures Orion Blazing Bright in Radio Light

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia to study a 50 light-year long filament of star-forming ...

Hubble applauds waltzing dwarfs

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The observed system, Luhman 16AB, is only about six light-years away and is the third closest stellar system to Earth - after the triple star system Alpha Centa...

Icy moons, galaxy clusters, and distant worlds selected targets for Webb Telescope

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

"From the very first galaxies after the Big Bang, to searching for chemical fingerprints of life on Enceladus, Europa, and exoplanets like TRAPPIST-1e, Webb wil...

Seeing the Beginning of Time Features the Dark Energy Survey

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

Donna Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), leads the CADENS project to help raise public awareness about computational scientific di...

VST captures 3-in-1

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

This region of the Milky Way houses a huge cloud of star-making material. The three [nebulae] - indicate where regions of this cloud have clumped together and c...

Ball Aerospace Completes WFIRST Study for NASA

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

"Ball is honored to have participated in the Wide Field Instrument Phase A Study, where we were able to leverage our successful experience from many astrophysic...

The future of the Orion constellation

Jun 15, 2017 (ESA)

By measuring their current movements, we can reconstruct the past trajectories of stars through the Milky Way to study the origins of our Galaxy, and even estim...

Chaotically magnetized cloud is no place to build a star, or is it

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

Now, a team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered a surprisingly weak and wildly disorganized magnetic fie...

Galaxy Alignments Traced Back 10 Billion Years

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

While most galaxies are randomly oriented in space, astronomers have long known that the biggest ones often point towards their neighbors. But when and how thes...

The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz large project

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

The astronomers obtained one of the clearest (highest angular resolution) and deepest (most sensitive) radio images ever produced over such a large region of th...

China launches its first X-ray space telescope

Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)

A Long March-4B rocket carried the 2.5-tonne telescope into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 11:00 am (3:00 GM...

Auriga Project Helps Uncover the History of Galaxies

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

The work of the Auriga Project (http://auriga.h-its.org), led by Dr. Robert Grand of the Theoretical Astrophysics group at HITS (Heidelberg Institute for Theore...

NRAO: Making Powerful Data-Visualization Tools Easier to Use

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

"The sheer volume of data that astronomers are encountering makes visualization a vital tool for understanding the results of their studies," said Brian Kent, o...

New evidence that all stars are born in pairs

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

Almost certainly yes - though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star in the universe, according to a new analysis by a theoretical physicist...

ALMA hears birth cry of a massive baby star

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

The parent cloud rotates slowly in the initial stage and the rotation becomes faster as the cloud shrinks due to self-gravity. Stars formed in such a process sh...

VLA gives new insight into galaxy cluster's spectacular 'mini-halo'

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

The scientists studied a cluster of thousands of galaxies more than 250 million light-years from Earth, named the Perseus Cluster after the constellation in whi...

Failed Star Orbits a Dead Star Every 71 Minutes

Jun 13, 2017 (SPX)

And one of the properties that makes this binary so remarkable is that the orbital period of the two objects is only 71.2 minutes. This means that the speeds of...