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A spiral galaxy with a secret
Feb 07, 2013 (SPX)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope - with a little help from an amateur astronomer - has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...
Massive stellar winds are made of tiny pieces
Feb 06, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory has completed the most detailed study ever of the fierce wind from a giant star, showing for the first time that it is not a ...
Astronomers discover new brown dwarf -- except this one is red
Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers in Britain report they've discovered a peculiar example of a celestial body known as a brown dwarf, one with unusually red skies. The brown dwarf, n...
Where are all the dwarfs?
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers of the international CLUES collaboration have identified "Cosmic Web Stripping" as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lac...
International Team Observe 'Hungry Twin' Stars Gobbling Their First Meals
Feb 04, 2013 (SPX)
Just-forming stars, like growing babies, are always hungry and must "feed" on huge amounts of gas and dust from dense envelopes surrounding them at birth. Now a...
Computer Models Explain How Galaxies Formed and Evolved
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers a...
Superbubble DEM L50
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
This composite image shows the superbubble DEM L50 (a.k.a. N186) located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years from Earth. Superbubbles are fo...
Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy
Feb 01, 2013 (JPL)
Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess. They show the elegant spiral galaxy Andromeda, named after the mythical G...
Dung beetles follow the Milky Way
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground," but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online in Current Bio...
Scientists probe mystery of early 'dead' galaxies in the universe
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
Danish scientists say cosmic collisions created enormously massive galaxies already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe. Astronomers ...
NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
Jan 28, 2013 (JPL)
NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark...
Red Explosions - Secret Life of Binary Stars Revealed
Jan 28, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that results in an explosion so powerful it ranks close ...
Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers
Jan 28, 2013 (SPX)
Pulsars - tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - have puzzled scientists since they were discovered in 1967. Now, new observations ...
Astronomer Creates Computer Models That Help Explain How Galaxies Formed And Evolved
Jan 28, 2013 (SPX)
When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers a...
The 3D fireworks of a star
Jan 28, 2013 (SPX)
In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers...
Baffling pulsar leaves astronomers in the dark
Jan 28, 2013 (ESA)
New observations of a highly variable pulsar using ESA's XMM-Newton are perplexing astronomers. Monitoring this pulsar simultaneously in X-rays and radio waves,...
Betelgeuse braces for a collision
Jan 25, 2013 (ESA)
Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. The star and it...
Shedding Light on the Power of M 82's Superwinds
Jan 25, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Kazuya Matsubayshi (Kyoto University), has discovered that outflows of gas from starburst galaxy M 82 (see Note...
A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Jan 25, 2013 (ESA)
Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our gal...
A Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant demonstrates the upgraded imaging power of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large A...
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