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Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the cosmic web
Jan 22, 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...
Did the Milky Way form 'inside-out'
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars ...
Himiko and the Cosmic Dawn
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
The Subaru Telescope, an 8.2-meter telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has been combing the night sky since 1999. Located at t...
The Star That Should Not Exist
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered...
Hubble Sees a Star Set to Explode
Jan 14, 2014 (SPX)
Floating at the center of this new Hubble image is a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space. This ethereal object, known officially as [SBW2007] 1...
NASA's Spitzer Probes Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Jan 12, 2014 (JPL)
Swirling, stormy clouds may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that most b...
NASA's Swift Catches X-ray Action at Milky Way's Center
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
Recent observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft have provided scientists a unique glimpse into the activity at the center of our galaxy and led to the discovery ...
Hubble Probes Interior of Tarantula Nebula
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
Like lifting a giant veil, the near-infrared vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovers a dazzling new view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula. Hubble revea...
Quasars illuminate swiftly swirling clouds around galaxies
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
A new study of light from quasars has provided astronomers with illuminating insights into the swirling clouds of gas that form stars and galaxies, proving that...
Surprising new class of 'hypervelocity stars' discovered escaping the galaxy
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" - solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitatio...
NASA's Fermi Makes First Gamma-ray Study of a Gravitational Lens
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, using NASA's Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural ...
ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova ...
Supernova's super dust factory imaged with ALMA
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a s...
New Studies Give Strong Boost to Binary-Star Formation Theory
Jan 01, 2014 (SPX)
Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of ve...
Russian Anti-Gravity Observation Satellite Delayed Until 2015
Dec 29, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian satellite to study anti-gravity forces by observing clusters of galaxies has been delayed until 2015 due to problems with a German-built telescope, a ...
Russian dark energy satellite's launch pushed back to 2015
Dec 27, 2013 (UPI)
A Russian satellite to study dark energy forces by observing galaxies has been delayed due to problems with a German-built telescope, a science official said. T...
Powerful ancient explosions explain new class of supernovae
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-...
The Rise and Fall of Galactic Cities
Dec 23, 2013 (JPL)
In the fable of the town and country mice, the country mouse visits his city-dwelling cousin to discover a world of opulence. In the early cosmos, billions of y...
Massive stars mark out Milky Way's 'missing' arms
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space ...
Liftoff for ESA's billion-star surveyor
Dec 20, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns....
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