STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)

In a course of studying young galaxies at a distance of 11.6 billion light years from Earth, a team of astronomers led by Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Ehime Un...

NOAO: Star Birth in Cepheus

Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)

Watching starbirth isn't easy: tens of millions of years are needed to form a star like our Sun. Much like archeologists who reconstruct ancient cities from sha...

Hubble observes the hidden depths of Messier 77

Apr 01, 2013 (ESA)

Messier 77 is a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us. Also known as NGC 1068, it is one of the most famous and well-st...

Hubble Sees J 900 Masquerading as a Double Star

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula - glowing shells of ionized gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900...

Young, hot and blue

Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)

The Universe is an old neighbourhood -- roughly 13.8 billion years old. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is also ancient -- some of its stars are more than 13 billion...

Hunting high-mass stars with Herschel

Mar 29, 2013 (ESA)

In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, ESA's Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. W3 is a giant molecular...

Astronomers discover new kind of supernova

Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)

Supernovae were always thought to occur in two main varieties. But a team of astronomers including Carnegie's Wendy Freedman, Mark Phillips and Eric Persson is ...

Sun block for the Big Dog

Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and from the University of Cologne, successfully i...

Ephemeral vacuum particles induce speed-of-light fluctuations

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Two forthcoming EPJ D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud, located in Or...

New Map Of Universe Shows What Earthly Physics Can't

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

Rachel Bean, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University and an expert on cosmology, dark energy, and the origins of the universe, comments on new data relea...

LOFAR discovers new giant galaxy in all-sky survey

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

A team of astronomers led by ASTRON astronomer Dr. George Heald has discovered a previously unknown gigantic radio galaxy, using initial images from a new, ongo...

Sideline quasars helped to stifle early galaxy formation

Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)

University of Colorado Boulder astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say "sideline quasars" likel...

Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever Seen

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contri...

Famous Supernova Reveals Clues About Crucial Cosmic Distance Markers

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, ...

Witnessing starbursts in young galaxies

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

On March 13, it was announced the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought - results now published in a ...

Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Galaxies can take many forms - elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed...

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck'

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered s...

ALMA finds 'monster' starburst galaxies in the early universe

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered starburst galaxies earlier in the Universe's history than th...

'Nuisance' data lead to surprising star-birth discovery

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

When a batch of bright cosmic objects first appeared in maps in 2008 made with data from the South Pole Telescope, astronomers at the University of Chicago's Ka...

ALMA rewrites history of Universe's stellar baby boom

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show that the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier...