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Cosmic calculations help better understand stellar chemistry
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately analyze the vast mole...
There's more star-stuff out there but it's not Dark Matter
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
More atomic hydrogen gas - the ultimate fuel for stars - is lurking in today's Universe than we thought, CSIRO astronomer Dr Robert Braun has found. This is the...
NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic col...
Stellar Archaeology Traces Milky Way's History
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understandin...
Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often...
Colliding galaxy cluster unravelled
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has used the International LOFAR Telescope from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, to study the formati...
Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars
May 23, 2012 (JPL)
The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ...
Herschel Space Observatory study reveals galaxy-packed filament
May 21, 2012 (SPX)
A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament c...
Celestial Tapestry Is Born Of Uncertain Parentage
May 19, 2012 (SPX)
A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controv...
A deeper look at Centaurus A
May 19, 2012 (SPX)
Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years a...
Baby galaxies grew up quickly
May 19, 2012 (SPX)
Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. T...
A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding...
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper
May 14, 2012 (JPL)
In England it is known as the "Plough," in Germany the "Great Cart," and in Malaysia the "Seven Ploughs." Since humanity first turned its eyes skyward, the seve...
The Heliosphere Bow Shock Does Not Exist
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
New results from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reveal that the bow shock, widely accepted by researchers to precede the heliosphere as it plows t...
New Molecules and Star Formation in the Milky Way
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
SOFIA, the "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", completed its first series of science flights, using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Teraher...
Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight
May 14, 2012 (ESA)
Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA's Hersch...
How massive stars sculpt a cosmic crib
May 14, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has captured a new, stunning image of Cygnus X, one of the richest star-forming regions in our cosmic neighbourhood. The image ...
How Nature Shapes the Birth of Stars
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which st...
VISTA views a vast ball of stars
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
Globular clusters are held together in a tight spherical shape by gravity. In Messier 55, the stars certainly do keep close company: approximately one hundred t...
IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge Of the Solar System
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2012 For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the ...
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