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Stars Missing In Action Now Counted
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
Almost one in five exploding stars in nearby galaxies is simply not seen, astronomers have determined. For galaxies further out, that fraction doubles. This fin...
World's most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in...
Public maps out an A to Z of galaxies
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
Members of the public have constructed an A to Z of galaxies in the night sky. Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists g...
Was Kepler's Supernova Unusually Powerful?
Sep 13, 2012 (SPX)
In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky that was much brighter than Jupiter and dimmed over several weeks. This event was witnessed by sky watchers includ...
Notre Dame astrophysicists publish new approach to cosmic lithium in the early universe
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
J. Christopher Howk, Nicolas Lehner and Grant Mathews of the Center for Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame published a paper this week in the journal ...
HiSCORE project: Most extreme Universe near Lake Baikal
Sep 10, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
An advanced new facility that specializes in catching elusive cosmic rays was initiated within the framework of a joint Russian-German-Italian project. A Tunca-...
Discovery of the Pigtail Molecular Cloud
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
A research team of the Department of Physics, Keio University, has discovered a molecular cloud with a peculiar helical structure by observation with the NRO 45...
NASA Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Passes Major Review
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
On August 31, 2012 , NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission proved it was ready for its next steps by passing what's called a Systems Integration Review...
A Cluster with a Secret
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
A new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This ball of tens of thousands of ancient stars is o...
A Family Portrait of Galaxies
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Two very different galaxies feature in this family portrait taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, together forming a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116...
Rapidly rotating white dwarf stars can solve the missing companion problem for Type Ia supernovae
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
The research group of Izumi Hachisu (The University of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio University) and Ken'ichi Nomoto (Kavli IPMU, The Univiersity of Tokyo) discover...
Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening f...
Unique Gamma Ray Station to Be Built on Baikal
Sep 05, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Work began by the Siberian Lake Baikal to create a unique gamma ray observatory, which will span 100 square kilometers in one of the world's cleanest places, re...
The mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
The universe is comprised of a large amount of invisible matter, dark matter. It fills the space between the galaxies and between the stars in the galaxies. Sin...
A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light years from E...
Sweet result from ALMA
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star. Th...
Astronomers Find First Multi-Planet System Around a Binary Star
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler mission has found the first multi-planet solar system orbiting a binary star, characterized in large part by University of Texas at Austin astrono...
Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-Off Galaxy
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
Nature hath no fury like a dying star - and astronomers couldn't be happier...An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard University, made the ...
Hubble Captures a Collection of Ancient Stars
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located abou...
New findings show some Type Ia supernovae linked to novae
Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)
In the August 24 issue of the journal Science, astronomers show for the first time that at least some thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae come from a recurrent n...
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