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The brightest stars don't live alone
Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)
The Universe is a diverse place, and many stars are quite unlike the Sun. An international team has used the VLT to study what are known as O-type stars, which ...
Two Solar System Puzzles Solved
Jul 27, 2012 (SPX)
Comets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did i...
Dark energy and fate of the Universe
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are po...
XENON100 sets record limits for dark matter
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from the XENON collaboration announced a new result from their search for dark matter. The analysis of data taken with the XENON100 detector during 1...
Seeds of Massive Black Holes Found at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
A research team at Keio University, led by Associate Professor Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the center of the ...
Indian astronomy satellite to study universe at multi-wavelengths
Jul 20, 2012 (IANS)
Astrosat, the $50 million astronomy satellite India will put in polar circular orbit in 2013, will study the universe at multi-wavelengths for the first time, a...
Astronomers report the earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, a shocking discovery
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings rep...
Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies
Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like g...
Peering into the heart of a supernova
Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)
Each century, about two massive stars in our own galaxy explode, producing magnificent supernovae. These stellar explosions send fundamental, uncharged particle...
Flying along the Vela ridge
Jul 13, 2012 (ESA)
A beautiful blue butterfly flutters towards a nest of warm dust and gas, above an intricate network of cool filaments in this image of the Vela C region by ESA'...
UKIRT discovers 'impossible' binary stars
Jul 10, 2012 (SPX)
A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hou...
Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time
Jul 10, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believe...
Hubble Sees a Vapor of Stars
Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)
Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's ...
In McNeil's Nebula, a Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots
Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)
Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have ob...
The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image
Jul 04, 2012 (JPL)
A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is part ...
X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star
Jul 04, 2012 (ESA)
An international team of scientists has used the world's most powerful X-ray observatories - including ESA's XMM-Newton orbiter - to probe the dusty surrounding...
Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell
Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps a...
Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found?
Jul 02, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers using three different telescopes - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia - may...
Reaching, Researching Between Stars
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
From Earth, observers use telescopes to look and learn about the distant luminous spheres. But the telescope often isn't the only instrument used. Karl Gebhardt...
VLT Takes a Close Look at NGC 6357
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot ...
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