STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)

Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with...

New Planck maps reveal unseen details across the Milky Way

Feb 15, 2012 (ESA)

An unambiguous detection of the Galactic Haze - a mysterious, diffuse emission from the central portion of the Milky Way - and the first all-sky map of carbon m...

NASA's Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids

Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to as...

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

Feb 14, 2012 (ESA)

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. ...

Young Stars at Home in Ancient Cluster

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration. It is a globular cl...

VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula

Feb 13, 2012 (ESO)

ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, sc...

Subaru Telescope Captures Images of the Stealth Merger of Dwarf Galaxies

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by David Martinez-Delgado (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) has conducted research that reveals a "stealth m...

New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

New images of a nearby dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process o...

AKARI Finds CO Molecules in 10,000,000-Degree Gas

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

A scientific team using the Japanese AKARI infrared space observatory finds carbon monoxide (CO) molecules in the ten million degree gas associated with the you...

NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates Ten Years and Forty Thousand X-Ray Flares

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High ...

Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest pr...

Cosmic probe finds strange microwave 'haze'

Jan 11, 2012 (AFP)

A probe designed to delve into the "Big Bang" that created the cosmos has uncovered an enigmatic fog of microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy, Europea...