Astronomy News

Nov 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a candidate for the most distant galaxy known to date. This image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0647+7015. Insets at left show three magnified views of the young dwarf galaxy MACS0647-JD (NASA / ESA / M. Postman / D. Coe / STScI / CLASH Team) A study, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org...

Nov 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new composite image combining far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories reveals the details of the supernova...

Nov 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope has detected a rogue planet, an interstellar...

Nov 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to a team of U.S. astronomers, comets have been colliding with one another every six seconds for millions of years in the Kuiper Belt-like disk...

Nov 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the lenticular galaxy NGC...

Nov 9, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of the remarkable...

Nov 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers using data from ESO’s HARPS instrument has discovered a new exoplanet in the habitable zone around the nearby...

Nov 7, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Yale astronomers have reported the discovery of a stream of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by our Milky...

Nov 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A colorful, close-up view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 has been taken by astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory...

Nov 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the giant Keck telescope in Hawaii have detected two superluminous supernovae – stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than...

Nov 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...

Oct 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Using sophisticated computer modeling programs, astrophysicists have shed light on the long-standing mystery of the binding force behind a cluster of unruly...

Oct 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the Low-Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (LOFAR) have captured a stunning image of a bubble of particles surrounding a supermassive...

Oct 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

By combining observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radio data from...

Oct 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured...

Oct 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of a massive planet around the nearby...

Oct 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...

Oct 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astrophysicists using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that isolated stars kicked to the edges of space by violent galaxy...

Oct 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...

Oct 23, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A. This...