STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

India developing satellites to study stars

Apr 07, 2014 (XNA)

India is developing satellites to study stars, including the Sun, a top space official has said. "The satellite, Astrosat, which will study stars, will be uniqu...

Galactic serial killer

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

Several clues in the structure of NGC 1316 reveal that its past was turbulent. For instance, it has some unusual dust lanes embedded within a much larger envelo...

Fermi Data Tantalize With New Clues To Dark Matter

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

A new study of gamma-ray light from the center of our galaxy makes the strongest case to date that some of this emission may arise from dark matter, an unknown ...

Dark energy hides behind phantom fields

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Quintessence and phantom fields, two hypotheses formulated using data from satellites, such as Planck and WMAP, are among the many theories that try to explain ...

New way to filter light

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Light waves can be defined by three fundamental characteristics: their color (or wavelength), polarization, and direction. While it has long been possible to se...

A close look a the nearest standard candle supernova in several decades

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Supernova 2014J in the nearby galaxy M82 -less than 12 million light-years away- exploded on January 14, 2014 and was the closest "standard candle" supernova si...

Solar System's edge redefined

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

The Solar System has a new most-distant member, bringing its outer frontier into focus. New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gem...

Astronomers Looking for Clues to Water's Origins

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

A gas and dust cloud collapses to form a star. Amid a whirling disc of debris, little bits of rock coated with liquid water and ice begin to stick together. It ...

Scientists solve riddle of celestial archaeology

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

A decades old space mystery has been solved by an international team of astronomers led by Professor Martin Barstow of the University of Leicester and President...

Simple, like a neutron star

Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)

In how many ways can one describe an object? Take an apple: by just looking at it we can easily estimate its weight, shape and colour but we are unable to descr...

Dramatic new portrait helps define Milky Way's shape and contents

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degre...

New view of supernova death throes

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies an...

Herschel completes largest survey of cosmic dust in local Universe

Mar 19, 2014 (ESA)

The largest census of dust in local galaxies has been completed using data from ESA's Herschel space observatory, providing a huge legacy to the scientific comm...

VLT spots largest yellow hypergiant star

Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France) and an international team of collaborato...

Death Stars in Orion Blast Planets before They Even Form

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

The Orion Nebula is home to hundreds of young stars and even younger protostars known as proplyds. Many of these nascent systems will go on to develop planets, ...

Astronomers reveal 'largest yellow star ever'

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Astronomers have spotted the largest yellow star ever observed in our galaxy and 1,300 times larger than the sun. The yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is also i...

Astronomer maps out Earth's place in the universe among 'Council of Giants'

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

We live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way - a vast conglomeration of 300 billion stars, planets whizzing around them, and clouds of gas and dust floating in be...

Galaxies in the early Universe mature beyond their years

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

An international team of researchers, including astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology, has discovered the most distant examples of galaxies in the...

Standard-Candle Supernovae are Still Standard, but Why?

Mar 11, 2014 (SPX)

Sixteen years ago two teams of supernova hunters, one led by Saul Perlmutter of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...

Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts

Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)

This new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 137-001, framed against a bright background as it moves through the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 3627. This clust...