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Starburst to star bust
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
A new study published in the journal Nature shows how vigorous star formation can turn the tables on a starburst galaxy by forcing hydrogen and other gases high...
Revealed: How galaxies go from burst to bust
Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)
Images from a nearby galaxy may have explained how star factories can bizarrely slow down, astronomers reported on Wednesday. Astrophysicists have long puzzled ...
Toronto researchers part of international team that caught neutrinos in the act
Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)
Today TRIUMF, a Canadian laboratory for nuclear and particle physics that works in partnership with York University and University of Toronto, announced a new b...
Catalog of cosmic X-Ray sightings will aid astronomers
Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)
A team led by British scientists says it has created a catalog containing the most cosmic X-ray sources ever sighted to help astronomers explore the universe. R...
NASA's Hubble Shows Link Between Stars' Ages and Their Orbits
Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of stars in an ancient globular star cluster, off...
ALMA prenatal scan reveals embryonic monster star
Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)
The most massive and brightest stars in the galaxy form within cool and dark clouds but the process remains not just shrouded in dust, but also in mystery [1]. ...
Stellar monsters do not collide -- no hope for a spectacular catastrophe
Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)
One might expect that collisions between the remains of monstrous stars, with masses reaching 200-300 times that of our Sun, would be among the most spectacular...
Cosmic Dust Belts without Dust
Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)
Planets and asteroids, red giants and brown dwarfs - there are all kinds of objects in our Universe. Debris disks are among them. These are belts consisting of ...
NASA Spacecraft Maps the Solar System's Tail
Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)
Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is s...
Thales Alenia Space kicks off Euclid construction
Jul 11, 2013 (ESA)
The construction of ESA's Euclid space mission to explore the 'dark Universe' will be led by Italy's Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, beginning the full...
Radio Bursts Discovered From Beyond our Galaxy
Jul 10, 2013 (JPL)
Astronomers, including a team member from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have detected the first population of radio bursts known to orig...
Spacecraft confirms solar system has a tail like a comet
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says one of its spacecraft has confirmed the long-held assumption that our solar system, like a comet, has a tail. As our solar system moves through space,...
Cosmic radio bursts point to cataclysmic origins
Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)
Mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from billions of light years away have left the scientists who detected them speculating about their origins. The i...
Feeding galaxy caught in distant searchlight by international research team
Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)
An international group of astronomers that includes UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist Crystal Martin and former UCSB postdoctoral researcher Nicolas Bouche has sp...
Europe prepares mission to penetrate 'dark' universe
Jul 08, 2013 (UPI)
The European Space Agency said construction is set to begin on its Euclid space mission to explore the "dark universe" of dark matter and dark energy. Italy's T...
Astronomers puzzled by strange intergalactic radio bursts
Jul 05, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers looking for neutron stars said they found mysterious intergalactic radio bursts in archived sky sweeps conducted by a radio telescope in Australia. ...
Inseparable Galactic Twins
Jul 04, 2013 (SPX)
Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 907...
Spiral galaxies like Milky Way bigger than thought
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of...
Astronomers spy on galaxies in the raw
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
A CSIRO radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old - le...
Scientists say decaying dark matter might be responsible for x-ray emission
Jun 25, 2013 (UPI)
Dark matter is everywhere. According to astronomers, it makes up some 80 percent of all matter in the universe. But since it doesn't absorb or emit light, scien...
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