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Brown Dwarfs Hiding in Plain Sight in Solar Neighborhood
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Cool brown dwarfs are a hot topic in astronomy right now. Smaller than stars and bigger than giant planets, they hold promise for helping us understand both ste...
Terzan 5 Is Like No Other Globular Cluster
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
A fossilised remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of astronomers. This stellar sys...
Detailed Age Map Shows How Milky Way Came Together
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way's halo, University of Notre Dame astronomers have produced the cleares...
One Trace of Dark Matter Vanishes
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
A mysterious X-ray signal from clusters of galaxies recently caused some excitement among astronomers: Does it perhaps originate from dark matter, which makes u...
The supernova that wasn't: A tale of 3 cosmic eruptions
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange: Over the course of a few years, a previously inconsp...
Planck: First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought
Sep 02, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background ind...
Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)
A new record for the most distant galaxy cluster has been set using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. This galaxy cluster may have been cau...
Milky Way Had A Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. B...
NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star
Aug 31, 2016 (JPL)
For years, astronomers have puzzled over a massive star lodged deep in the Milky Way that shows conflicting signs of being extremely old and extremely young. Re...
The Rise and Fall of Galaxy Formation
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history. Their work...
6 million-year-old gas bubble eminating from Milky Way center
Aug 29, 2016 (UPI)
Today, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is rather quiet. New research suggests its relative dormancy is recent. According to a new stu...
More to rainbows than meets the eye
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
In-depth review charts the scientific understanding of rainbows and highlights the many practical applications of this fascinating interaction between light, li...
Scientists Discover A 'Dark' Milky Way
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. The ga...
ALMA finds unexpected trove of gas around larger stars
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars - some Sun-like and others approximately double that si...
WISE, Fermi missions reveal a surprising blazar connection
Aug 25, 2016 (JPL)
Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they ...
Can 1 cosmic enigma help solve another
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
Astrophysicists from the Johns Hopkins University have proposed a clever new way of shedding light on the mystery of dark matter, believed to make up most of th...
Most distant galaxy clusters ever found
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they ...
Study: Only larger stars boast gas-rich disks
Aug 25, 2016 (UPI)
Recent observations made by Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ALMA, suggest larger stars host significant carbon monoxide gas reservoirs. ALMA astro...
Massive galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. U...
Cosmic neighbors inhibit star formation, even in the early-universe
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they ...
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