STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

For only the second time in history, a team of scientists--including Carnegie's Michele Fumagalli--have discovered an extremely rare triple quasar system. Their...

ALMA exposes hidden star factories in the early universe

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

Some of the brightest galaxies in the universe - infant galaxies that churned out tens of thousands of stars each year at the dawn of the universe - evolved muc...

Bursts of Star Formation in the Early Universe

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

Galaxies have been experiencing vigorous bursts of star formation from much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, according to new observations by ...

Distance to nearest galaxy measured

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Ian Thompson have managed to improve the measurement of the distance to our nearest neighbor galaxy and, in the proce...

CSI: Milky Way

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

These days the core of the Milky Way galaxy is a pretty tame place...cosmically speaking. The galactic black hole at the center is a sleeping giant. Existing st...

Pan-STARRS Finds a Lost Supernova

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-b...

Probing Extreme Matter Through Observations Of Neutron Stars

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the universe outside of a black hole. New res...

Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a...

Soccer Balls in Interstellar Space

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

An international team of astronomers led by Masaaki Otsuka (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics or ASIAA) has detected the C60 fullerene (mo...

Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's possible origins

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

New theoretical modeling by Carnegie's Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system-Jupiter and Saturn-might have formed and evolve...

Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice ...

Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten and magnify the light coming from ve...

Light particles illuminate the vacuum

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

In an article published in the PNAS scientific journal, researchers from Aalto University and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland showed experimentally...

White dwarf supernova spotted in Virgo Cluster

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova. A supernova d...

Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-ey...

Black hole found spinning near the relativistic limit

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

The best evidence yet that some supermassive black holes (SMBH) rotate at extremely high rates has been found by an international team of astronomers. Made usin...

Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution

Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)

Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered tantalizing evidence ...

NASA's Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

A new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence the expanding debris of exploded stars produces ...

Sweeping the Dust from a Cosmic Lobster

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

A new image from ESO's VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared v...

3-D Observations Of The Outflow From An Active Galactic Nucleus

Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)

A Japanese team of astronomers, led by Toru Misawa (Shinshu University), has used the Subaru Telescope to observe a distant gravitationally-lensed quasar (Note ...