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Stardust grains may reveal first look at interstellar space
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Seven grains of stardust that are believed to come from outside our solar system are revealing new hints about what the universe is made of, scientists said Thu...
Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked To Zombie Star
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a "zombie star" after an unusually weak superno...
White dwarfs crashing into neutron stars explain loneliest supernovae
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
A research team led by astronomers and astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that some of the Universe's loneliest supernovae are likely creat...
NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source of Gamma Rays
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of several stellar eruptions, called novae, firmly establish these relatively common outbursts almost alw...
ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in th...
Mysterious molecules in space
Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)
Over the vast, empty reaches of interstellar space, countless small molecules tumble quietly though the cold vacuum. Forged in the fusion furnaces of ancient st...
Our galaxy is way smaller than previous estimates
Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)
The Milky Way is smaller than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the ...
Astronomers measure weight of galaxies, expansion of universe
Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the precise mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda ...
Glow in Space is Evidence of A Hot Bubble in Our Galaxy
Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)
When we look up to the heavens on a clear night, we see an immense dark sky with uncountable stars. With a small telescope we can also see galaxies, nebulae, an...
The source of the sky's X-ray glow
Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)
In findings that help astrophysicists understand our corner of the galaxy, an international research team has shown that the soft X-ray glow blanketing the sky ...
Australian researchers pioneer a Google street view of galaxies
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the cosmos - incredibly detail...
Lives and Deaths of Sibling Stars
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
In this striking new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. T...
Mysterious dance of dwarfs may force a cosmic rethink
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery that many small galaxies throughout the universe do not 'swarm' around larger ones like bees do but 'dance' in orderly disc-shaped orbits is a cha...
Sun-like Stars Reveal Their Ages
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Defining what makes a star "Sun-like" is as difficult as defining what makes a planet "Earth-like." A solar twin should have a temperature, mass, and spectral t...
Astronomers Bring The Third Dimension To A Doomed Star's Outburst
Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)
In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the sec...
Merging galaxies and droplets of starbirth
Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)
The Universe is filled with objects springing to life, evolving and dying explosive deaths. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a s...
Carbon monoxide predicts 'red and dead' future of gas guzzler galaxy
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, an...
Perspective of the PandaX dark matter experiment
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
The PandaX experiment of China, which is located in the deepest underground laboratory, has released its technical design report recently. The full article will...
Cosmic accounting reveals missing light crisis
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. The vast reaches of empty space between g...
VLT clears up dusty mystery
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
The origin of cosmic dust in galaxies is still a mystery [1]. Astronomers know that supernovae may be the primary source of dust, especially in the early Univer...
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