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NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an ex...
University of Florida astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical. Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at su...
Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Ehime University) has concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 (Figure 1) dev...
Is NASA's Voyager about to leave the Solar System?
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, appears to be on the verge of becoming the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and begin a new journey in outer space...
ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europe, has observed a "s...
Illuminating the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
UK teams working on the mission to study the "dark Universe" are being granted a planned 8.5M pounds by the UK Space Agency to develop scientific instruments. T...
Dark Universe mission blueprint complete
Jun 25, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - has reached an important milestone that will see it head towards...
Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Because of the alignment, NGC 3314B's dust lanes appear lighter than those of NGC 3314A. This is not because that galaxy lacks dust, but rather because its dust...
Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals
Jun 22, 2012 (JPL)
Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations from NASA's...
Why Won't the Supernova Explode?
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
Somewhere in the Milky Way, a massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, the star begins to collapse under its own trem...
WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home
Jun 15, 2012 (JPL)
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the cente...
Astronomers pinpoint elusive galaxy after decade-long hunt
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers led by Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has managed for the first time to determine the distance of ...
Magnetic fields slow down stars
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have proved the existence of a magnetic effect that could explain why solar-like stars spin very slowly at the end of their lifetime. Researchers fro...
Astronomers Map 40 Million Stars
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers will soon have access to a new map of the sky that accurately measures the brightness and position of over 40 million stars. This map is a result of...
Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago, recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank ...
Astronomer's Refining Method to Age the Most Abundant Stars
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
As a part of their "Living with a Red Dwarf" program, Villanova astronomers Scott Engle and Ed Guinan are trying to understand how the most common type of star ...
NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously
Jun 08, 2012 (JPL)
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telesco...
Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA's Non-manned Missions?
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA's space exploration budget? With a possible $30...
The delicate balance of star formation in the Carina Nebula
Jun 07, 2012 (ESA)
A new image from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals the glowing clouds of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula complex, one of the most massive stellar nurse...
Arizona State University astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light...
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