STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Important Clue Uncovered for the Origins of a Type of Supernovae Explosion

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

The origin of an important type of exploding stars-Type Ia supernovae-have been discovered, thanks to a research team at the University of Pittsburgh. Studying ...

Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

An international particle physics collaboration has announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neut...

NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior of Unique Neutron Star

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no l...

Antlia Dwarf Galaxy Peppers the Sky with Stars

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image o...

Mystery deepens around dark core in cosmic collision

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

Five years ago, San Francisco State researcher Andisheh Mahdavi and his colleagues observed an unexpected dark core at the center of Abell 520, a cosmic "train ...

Distant galaxy cluster found in plain view

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant example of a galaxy cluster lying in the middle of one of the most well-studied regions in the sky. Galaxy...

Galaxy cluster hidden in plain view

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m ...

Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of...

Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way

Mar 08, 2012 (JPL)

A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galax...

Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust

Mar 02, 2012 (ESA)

Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and ...

Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova

Feb 28, 2012 (ESA)

At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and b...

Rare Earth element found far, far away

Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)

Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium - byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, ...

Globular star clusters: The survivors of a massacre 13 billion years ago

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular cluste...

Gamma-ray bursts' highest power side unveiled by Fermi telescope

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth's ...

Astronomers Watch Instant Replay of Powerful Stellar Eruption

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, ...

The star factory: observing Arp 220

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

The galaxy Arp 220 is home to several giant star clusters-about 10 million solar masses-that are twice as massive as any comparable star cluster in the Milky Wa...

APEX Turns its Eye to Dark Clouds in Taurus

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newb...

Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Ea...

A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

It's well known that the universe is changeable: even the stars that appear static and predictable every night are subject to change. This image from the NASA H...

Missing dark matter located

Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at IPMU and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter...