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New Australian telescope set to find 700,000 galaxies
Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)
Australia's newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies, say scientists planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Sq...
Cosmic GDP Crashes 97 percent As Star Formation Slumps
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
While parts of the world experience economic hardship, a team of Portuguese, UK, Japanese, Italian and Dutch astronomers has found an even bigger slump happenin...
A Nearby Stellar Cradle
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds to thousands of hot, massive, young...
Study: Star formation peaked, in decline
Nov 06, 2012 (UPI)
An international team of astronomers says it has found the rate of formation of new stars in the universe is only 1/30th of its peak and is in ongoing decline. ...
Solar system's birth record revised
Nov 05, 2012 (SPX)
Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system's planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are wit...
Fermi Measures Cosmic 'Fog' Produced by Ancient Starlight
Nov 05, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish...
Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe's earliest stars
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
The most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date have been observed by an international team, including Raymond Carlberg of the University of Toronto's...
Stars Ancient and Modern?
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
This colourful view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Ob...
Distant super-luminous supernovae found
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
Two 'super-luminous' supernovae - stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than other supernova types - have been detected in the distant Universe. The disco...
Galactic Thief: I Would Have Gotten Away With It, If It Weren't for Those Meddling Astronomers
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with theft. However, new simulations convicted the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) of stealing stars f...
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Oct 31, 2012 (ESA)
The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays, as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope. The eerie e...
Dark clouds, young stars, and a dash of Hollywood
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Stars are born in hiding, when dense regions within clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity. But the clouds not only provide the raw material fo...
Gaia launcher separation test and Payload Module acceptance vibration tests completed
Oct 31, 2012 (ESA)
Testing of the separation of the Gaia Service Module from its Launch Vehicle Adapter has been completed, as have the acceptance vibration tests on the Payload M...
Monster galaxy may have been stirred up by black-hole mischief
Oct 29, 2012 (ESA)
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen...
'White Widow' Scenario for Birth of Type Ia Supernovae
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
J. Craig Wheeler has studied the exploding stars called supernovae for more than four decades. Now he has a new idea on the identity of the "parents" of one of ...
For the Milky Way, it's snack time
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers have discovered a band, or stream, of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being i...
A black widow's Tango Mortale in gamma-ray light
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radia...
NASA's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome Stars
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. It comes from ...
84 Million Stars and Counting
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a ...
Galaxies: some assembly required
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
New research using the world's largest telescope at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii has revealed two distinct populations of star clusters surrounding galaxies t...
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