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SMA Reveals Giant Star Cluster in the Making
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
W49A might be one of the best-kept secrets in our galaxy. This star-forming region shines 100 times brighter than the Orion nebula, but is so obscured by dust t...
Swift satellite catches 100,000 new cosmic X-ray sources
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
An international team led from the University of Leicester has published a major list of celestial X-ray sources in the Astrophysical Journal. The result of man...
Astrium has finalised preparation of Gaia, the star mapper of the Milky Way
Dec 19, 2013 (ESA)
Astrium, the world's second largest space company, has finalised its preparation of Gaia in Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's most advanced space telescope is sch...
Europe launches billion-dollar Milky Way telescope
Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)
The European Space Agency on Thursday launched an advanced telescope designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way a...
Supernovae hundreds of times brighter than normal observed
Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. astronomers say they've discovered two supernovas 10 billion light-years from Earth that are 100 times more luminous than a normal supernova. Scientists at...
Study: 'Missing' arms of our Milky Way galaxy are actually there
Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)
A study of massive stars confirms our galaxy has four spiral arms, ending debate sparked by telescope images suggesting only two arms, British astronomers say. ...
Fast Radio Bursts Might Come From Nearby Stars
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
First discovered in 2007, "fast radio bursts" continue to defy explanation. These cosmic chirps last for only a thousandth of a second. The characteristics of t...
Astronomers discover first noble gas molecules in space
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Noble gas molecules have been detected in space for the first time in the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, by astronomers at UCL. Led by Professor Mike Barlow ...
Noble gas molecule discovered in space
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
A molecule containing a noble gas has been discovered in space by a team including astronomers from Cardiff University. The find was made using a Cardiff-led in...
Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy: Green Bank Telescope's new vision debuts
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-befor...
Neutron Stars' X-ray Superbursts Mystify, Inspire Los Alamos Scientists
Dec 10, 2013 (SPX)
Massive X-ray superbursts near the surface of neutron stars are providing a unique window into the operation of fundamental forces of nature under extreme condi...
Fledgling supernova remnant reveals neutron star's secrets
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
With the help of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, an international team of astronomers has identified the glowing wre...
Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine Circinus X-1 -- an X-ray binary...
Explosive growth of young star
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
A star is formed when a large cloud of gas and dust condenses and eventually becomes so dense that it collapses into a ball of gas, where the pressure heats the...
A Blast from Its Past Dates the Youngest Neutron-Star Binary
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
X-rays streaming toward Earth from the region near a neutron star that is cannibalizing its companion star have revealed the pair to be the youngest "X-ray bina...
The mystery of neutron stars heats up
Dec 04, 2013 (SPX)
Until now, scientists were pretty sure they knew how the surface of a neutron star - a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core colla...
A fiery drama of star birth and death
Dec 04, 2013 (SPX)
Located only about 160 000 light-years from us in the constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish), the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our closest galactic neighbo...
Figures of Eight and Peanut Shells at the Galactic Center
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), showing more clearly than ever the bulge at its core. Prev...
Physicists find a way to study coldest objects in the universe
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
They are the coldest objects in the Universe and are so fragile that even a single photon can heat and destroy them. Known as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) a...
Mach 1000 shock wave lights supernova remnant
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
When a star explodes as a supernova, it shines brightly for a few weeks or months before fading away. Yet the material blasted outward from the explosion still ...
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