Astronomy News

May 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered a magnetar called SGR 0418+5729 (SGR 0418 for short) – an exotic object in our Milky Way Galaxy with the lowest surface magnetic field ever found for this type of neutron star. Composite image of the magnetar SGR 0418 (X-ray: NASA / CXC / CSIC-IEEC / N.Rea et al.; optical: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has precisely located one of the most-observed variable-star systems in the sky – a double-star system called...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image to date of the famous Ring Nebula, also...

May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...

May 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has captured a stunning new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion. This...

May 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...

May 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...

Apr 25, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using e-MERLIN Radio Telescope Array at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, have captured a new image of the outer atmosphere of...

Apr 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org version), a blazar called PKS 1424+240 is the most distant...

Apr 22, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

Apr 16, 2013 by News Staff

New observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have tracked the ‘rain’ of charged water particles into the atmosphere...

Apr 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured the first images of a dust belt orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system. Kappa...

Apr 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has found the most distant Type Ia supernova ever detected. This is a Hubble view...

Apr 3, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. astrophysicists report computer simulations that seem to resolve long-standing questions about the origin and life history of spiral arms in disk...

Apr 2, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from Australia and Hong Kong using the Australia Telescope Compact Array has observed the supernova remnant 1987A...

Apr 2, 2013 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77. The spiral...

Mar 27, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Alicia Margarita Soderberg from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the discovery of a new type...

Mar 25, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists using ESA’s Planck satellite have released the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic microwave...