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How Stellar Death Can Lead To Twin Celestial Jets
Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers know that while large stars can end their lives as violently cataclysmic supernovae, smaller stars end up as planetary nebulae - colorful, glowing c...
Researchers identify one of the earliest stars in the universe
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
As the Big Bang's name suggests, the universe burst into formation from an immense explosion, creating a vast soup of particles. Gigantic clouds of primordial s...
ANU astronomers discover oldest star
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13...
Red skies discovered on extreme brown dwarf
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
A peculiar example of a celestial body, known as a brown dwarf, with unusually red skies has been discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Her...
A New Look at an Old Friend
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Just weeks after NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory began operations in 1999, the telescope pointed at Centaurus A (Cen A, for short). This galaxy, at a distance ...
GOES EXIS Quadruplets Together in a Cleanroom Nursery
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Four Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors or EXIS instruments that will fly aboard four of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-...
Maxwell Tech Provides Computer Power To ESA Astronomy Mission
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Maxwell Technologies has supplied seven powerful single board computers that are providing processing power for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite...
'Oldest star' found from iron fingerprint: astronomers
Feb 09, 2014 (AFP)
Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen. The star was formed just a couple...
Study Finds Early Universe Warmed Up Later Than Previously Theorized
Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)
A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that black holes, formed from the first stars in our universe, heated the gas throughout space later than previousl...
Heavy Metal in the Early Cosmos
Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)
Ab initio: "From the beginning." It's a term used in science to describe calculations that rely on established mathematical laws of nature, or "first principles...
NASA and ESA Space Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Burned-Out Galaxies
Feb 03, 2014 (JPL)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact...
Where the Wild Stars Are
Feb 03, 2014 (JPL)
A storm of stars is brewing in the Trifid nebula, as seen in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The stellar nursery, where baby...
Universe's early galaxies grew massive through collisions
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
It has long puzzled scientists that there were enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, app...
Solving a 30-year-old problem in massive star formation
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massiv...
UCSC Scientists Capture First Cosmic Web Filaments at Keck Observatory
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to...
River of Hydrogen Flowing through Space Seen with Green Bank Telescope
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what coul...
NASA Spacecraft Take Aim At Nearby Supernova
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecra...
Milky Way shaken... and stirred
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of...
Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type ...
Galaxies on FIRE: Star Feedback Results in Less Massive Galaxies
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
For decades, astrophysicists have encountered a puzzling contradiction: although many galactic-wind models-simulations of how matter is distributed in our unive...
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