Astronomy News

Feb 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. The closest potentially habitable exoplanet could be just 13 light-years away. This image shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star (David A. Aguilar) “We thought we would have to search vast distances to find...

Feb 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...

Jan 30, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured two new views of the Andromeda Galaxy. This new image from the Herschel Space Observatory...

Jan 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatory has identified a pulsar that is able to dramatically change the way...

Jan 25, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope has detected a stellar companion and a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the star GSC 03547-01402...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new far-infrared view of Betelgeuse – the nearest red supergiant star to our planet – obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory reveals...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...

Jan 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by British planetary scientists has provided evidence that auroras occur on a number of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, collectively...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Jan 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured a new view of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant that resembles an endangered species...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Jan 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major. Sloan...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...

Jan 10, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found. Supernova...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...

Jan 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...

Dec 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to a team of astronomers led by Dr Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of Stanford University, so-called ‘ultramassive black holes’ may be more abundant...

Dec 25, 2012 by Natali Anderson

The Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of one of the flattest galaxies known –...