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Magnetic 'Force Field' Shields Giant Gas Cloud during Collision with Milky Way
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the Nati...
Yes, There is Activity in the Darkness of Space
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
Looking up at the night sky one sees only the darkness between the stars. An area void of activity? Not exactly. This area between the star systems in our galax...
Scientists announce first results from LUX dark matter detector
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
In its first three months of operation, the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark matter detector in the worl...
ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of 'Coldest Place in the Universe'
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe - colder, in fact, ...
The Galactic Mosh Pit
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered that our Galaxy wobbles. An international team of astronomers around Mary Williams from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsd...
Dark matter experiment deep in U.S. gold mine returns first results
Oct 30, 2013 (UPI)
A new dark matter detector almost a mile deep in a former South Dakota gold mine has yielded its first data, scientists report. The goal of the Large Undergroun...
Astronomers make detailed study of coldest place in the universe
Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers say they've used a radio telescope array in Chile to study a cosmic curiosity known as the Boomerang Nebula, the coldest object in the universe. The...
UC San Diego Researchers Advance Explanation for Star Formation
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
A newly published paper by three UC San Diego astrophysics researchers for the first time provides an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations ...
Las Cumbres Capabilities Identify First Progenitor Of A Stripped-Envelope Supernova
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
In June of this year, supernova iPTF13bvn, surprised astrophysicists by revealing its parentage. To date, Type Ib supernovae have appeared to come from nowhere....
Sky Survey Captures Key Details of Cosmic Explosions
Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)
Developed to help scientists learn more about the complex nature of celestial objects in the universe, astronomical surveys have been cataloguing the night sky ...
Most distant gravitational lens helps weigh galaxies
Oct 21, 2013 (ESA)
An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet - a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of rela...
Queen's University scientists shed new light on star death
Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast have shed new light on the rarest and brightest exploding stars ever discovered in the universe. The research is publi...
New survey tools unveil two celestial explosions
Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers including Carnegie's Mansi Kasliwal and John Mulchaey used a novel astronomical survey software system-the intermediate Palomar Transient ...
Two new cosmic explosions unveiled in sky survey analysis
Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers say software analysis of sky surveys created by telescopes in California has allowed them to link a supernova to the star from which it exploded. Th...
Biggest star is ripping itself apart - astronomer
Oct 16, 2013 (AFP)
The biggest known star in the cosmos is in its death throes and will eventually explode, astronomers said on Wednesday. Using a telescope at the European Southe...
Soft shells and strange star clusters
Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)
PGC 6240 is an elliptical galaxy that resembles a pale rose in the sky, with hazy shells of stars encircling a very bright centre. Some of these shells are pack...
A close look at the Toby Jug Nebula
Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)
Located about 1200 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Carina (The Ship's Keel), the Toby Jug Nebula, more formally known as IC 2220, is an ...
Observations reveal critical interplay of interstellar dust, hydrogen
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
For astrophysicists, the interplay of hydrogen - the most common molecule in the universe - and the vast clouds of dust that fill the voids of interstellar spac...
Magnetic field may shape blooming star
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
An old star, IRAS 15445-5449, has begun to push out a jet of charged particles that glow with radio waves. A few old stars are known to have jets, "but this is ...
Jekyll and Hyde star morphs from radio to X-ray pulsar and back again
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have uncovered the strange case of a neutron star with the peculiar ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray pulsar and back again. Th...
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