STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Aug 19, 2015 (ESO)

Open star clusters like the one seen here are not just perfect subjects for pretty pictures. Most stars form within clusters and these clusters can be used by a...

Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy collision

Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)

A spectacular galaxy collision has been discovered lurking behind the Milky Way. The closest such system ever found, the discovery was announced today by a team...

Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors

Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near o...

Sorting through thickets of stars in elliptical galaxies far, far away

Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)

A Yale University astronomer has helped untangle the cosmic knots of stars at the center of giant, elliptical galaxies. Two studies, one led by Yale's Grant Tre...

Milky Way-like galaxies may have existed in the early universe

Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of...

The ghost of a dying star

Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astr...

Remnants of galaxy interactions uncovered in a nearby galaxy group

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam prime-focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two bright...

NASA Selects Proposals to Study Neutron Stars, Black Holes and More

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

NASA has selected five proposals submitted to its Explorers Program to conduct focused scientific investigations and develop instruments that fill the scientifi...

Binary Star System Precisely Timed with Pulsar's Gamma-rays

Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)

Pulsars are rapidly rotating compact remnants born in the explosions of massive stars. They can be observed through their lighthouse-like beams of radio waves a...

'Failed stars' host powerful auroral displays

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Brown dwarfs are relatively cool, dim objects that are difficult to detect and hard to classify. They are too massive to be planets, yet possess some planetlike...

Astronomers discover powerful aurora beyond solar system

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth -- i...

First detection of lithium from an exploding star

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova. Observations of Nova Centauri 2013 made using telescopes at ESO's ...

Undergraduates discover the densest galaxies known

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Two undergraduates at San Jose State University have discovered two galaxies that are the densest known. Similar to ordinary globular star clusters but a hundre...

Brown dwarfs, stars share formation process

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs. The discovery is the f...

Pillars of destruction reveals impact of cosmic wind on galaxy evolution

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have long known that powerful cosmic winds can sometimes blow through galaxies, sweeping out interstellar material and stopping future star formatio...

Simulated map of missing satellite galaxies may answer darkmatter puzzle

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

A ripple in the outskirts of the Milky Way-and a hunch-led Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti to a previously undetected dwarf...

Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Austra...

New 3-D model could solve supernova mystery

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova. How thes...

Starry surprise in the bulge: encounter of a halo passerby

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

A team led by Andrea Kunder from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) measured the velocity of a sample of 100 old RR Lyrae stars* thought to re...

ALMA Greatly Improves Capacity to Search for Water in Universe

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

After more than five years of development and construction, ALMA successfully opened its eyes on another frequency range after obtaining the first fringes with ...