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Violent Birth Announcement from an Infant Star
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
This Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust. It appears to be embedded within an intriguing swoosh of...
Chandra Helps Explain Red and Dead Galaxies
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars. This new evidence highlights ...
Galaxies In Collision
Jun 03, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
A short time ago, in a galaxy very, very close by, a NASA satellite thought it detected a gamma ray burst in Andromeda. It was a false alarm, but astronomers us...
Rush a light wave and you'll break its data
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
Quantum information can't break the cosmic speed limit, according to researchers* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Univers...
The 'Serpent' Star-forming Cloud Hatches New Stars
May 29, 2014 (JPL)
Stars that are just beginning to coalesce out of cool swaths of dust and gas are showcased in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron ...
Failed dwarf galaxy survives galactic collision thanks to full dark-matter jacket
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Like a bullet wrapped in a full metal jacket, a high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, acco...
Supernova Caught in the Act by Palomar Transient Factory
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Supernovae-stellar explosions-are incredibly energetic, dynamic events. It is easy to imagine that they are uncommon, but the universe is a big place and supern...
Sending entangled beams through fast-light materials
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Michael Lewis's bestselling book "Flash Boys" describes how some brokers, engaging in high frequency trading, exploit fast telecommunications to gain fraction-o...
Study of cosmic explosions aims to further our understanding of dark energy
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Southampton are aiming to further our understanding of dark energy, the mysterious and unknown force that powers the accelerat...
Blowing in the (Stellar) Wind
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
When a supernova - the explosion of a distant star - was discovered last year, astrophysicists, with the help of telescopes around the globe, rushed to observe ...
Confirmed: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
Our Sun may seem pretty impressive: 330,000 times as massive as Earth, it accounts for 99.86 percent of the Solar System's total mass; it generates about 400 tr...
A star cluster in the wake of Carina
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
NGC 3590 is a small open cluster of stars around 7500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Carina (The Keel). It is a gathering of dozens of stars lo...
Very distant galaxy cluster confirmed
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
The structures and star populations of massive galaxies appear to change as they age, but much about how these galaxies formed and evolved remains mysterious. M...
ESA's new X-ray optics for observing the hot Universe
May 21, 2014 (ESA)
A new idea to use super-polished silicon wafers as the heart of a telescope is set to reveal more of the hot, high-energy Universe, peering back into its turbul...
Magnetar Formation Mystery Solved
May 19, 2014 (SPX)
Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe - millions of times more powerful t...
Stability lost as supernovae explode
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
Exploding supernovae are a phenomenon that is still not fully understood. The trouble is that the state of nuclear matter in stars cannot be reproduced on Earth...
HADES searches for Dark Matter
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
Although Dark Energy and Dark Matter appear to constitute over 95 percent of the universe, nobody knows of which particles they are made up. Astrophysicists now...
NASA Delivers New Insight into Star Cluster Formation
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance in the understanding of how clusters of sta...
Nearest bright 'hypervelocity star' found
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
A University of Utah-led team discovered a "hypervelocity star" that is the closest, second-brightest and among the largest of 20 found so far. Speeding at more...
Galaxy's biggest telescope used to make precise measurement of spinning star
May 08, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best. The...
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