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Presumed young star turns out to be a galactic senior citizen
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, is twelve billion years old rather than just 2.3 billion. For many decades, researchers were stumped by co...
Astronomy prof, student predict explosion that will change the night sky
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Calvin College professor Larry Molnar and his students along with colleagues from Apache Point Observatory (Karen Kinemuchi) and the University of Wyoming (Henr...
Astrophysicists Discover Dimming of Binary Star
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
A team of University of Notre Dame astrophysicists led by Peter Garnavich, professor of physics, has observed the unexplained fading of an interacting binary st...
Keck Cosmic Web Imager Ships from Caltech to Keck Observatory
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe shipped early this morning, Jan. 12, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, wher...
Farthest stars in Milky Way might be ripped from another galaxy
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard as...
A dozen and one neutron stars
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
With the help of tens of thousands of volunteers the distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers 13 new gamma-ray pulsars An analysis that would have ...
Milky Way's most distant stars were likely stolen
Jan 11, 2017 (UPI)
At least five of the 11 most distant stars in the Milky Way were likely stolen from another galaxy, Harvard astronomers suggest. The stars of interest are all 3...
Photons Struggle to Escape Distant Galaxies - EMBARGOED until 11 January 2017 08:01 UTC / 3:01 am EST / 12:01 am PST
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers led by David Sobral and Jorryt Matthee, of the Universities of Lancaster in the UK and Leiden in the Netherlands, respectively, have discovered gian...
Photons Struggle to Escape Distant Galaxies
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers led by David Sobral and Jorryt Matthee, of the Universities of Lancaster in the UK and Leiden in the Netherlands, respectively, have discovered gian...
Scientists close on on the true mass of Milky Way
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
It's a problem of galactic complexity, but researchers are getting closer to accurately measuring the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy. In the latest of a series of...
Astronomer predicts red nova explosion to light up the sky in 2022
Jan 09, 2017 (UPI)
Lawrence Molnar, a professor of astronomy and physics at Calvin College, has crunched the numbers on KIC 9832227, a contact binary star system. According to his...
Elements of life mapped across the Milky Way
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
To say "we are stardust" may be a cliche, but it's an undeniable fact that most of the essential elements of life are made in stars. At this week's American Ast...
Working hard to improve inclusion in astronomy
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
Although nearly 30 percent of U.S. citizens are African-American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander or Native American, these groups make up only 4 percent of the astr...
How far away is that galaxy
Jan 06, 2017 (JPL)
A team of researchers has compiled a special catalog to help astronomers figure out the true distances to tens of thousands of galaxies beyond our own Milky Way...
Astronomers discover powerful cosmic double whammy
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen before. Two of the most powerful phenomena in the universe, a supermassive black hole an...
Gemini: exploring a fast radio burst in 3 dimensions
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), sudden rapid explosions of energy from space, have challenged astronomers since their discovery in 2007. Typically lasting only a few ...
Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be coming from outside our galaxy, which mea...
Hidden secrets of Orion's molecular clouds
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
This spectacular new image is one of the largest near-infrared high-resolution mosaics of the Orion A molecular cloud, the nearest known massive star factory, l...
Researchers get first look at new, extremely rare galaxy
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers ...
Cosmic Source Found For Mysterious 'fast Radio Burst'
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Cornell University researchers and a global team of astronomers have uncovered the cosmological source of a sporadically repeating milliseconds-long "fast radio...
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