Astronomy News

Sep 28, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astrophysicists has the first time measured the black hole’s ‘point of no return’ – the closest distance that matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into the black hole. This artist’s conception shows the region immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. The black hole is orbited by a thick disk of hot gas. The center of the disk glows white-hot, while the edge of the disk is shown...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new image of part of the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas known as Sharpless 2-292...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...

Sep 26, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have assembled a new portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe by combining 10 years of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observations. This...

Sep 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and Japan’s Suzaku have provided evidence that our Galaxy...

Sep 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars. This artist’s...

Sep 21, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of an actively star-forming galaxy known as NGC 7090. This image shows the...

Sep 20, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have discovered what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the young...

Sep 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...

Sep 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The Dark Energy Camera – the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created – has recorded first images in hunt for dark energy, according...

Sep 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster. An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...

Sep 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested that a stellar explosion known as the Kepler’s...

Sep 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...

Sep 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy. Artist’s...

Sep 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star. This image shows the...

Sep 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...

Sep 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold. This image...

Sep 7, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116. Hubble snapped this image of the...

Sep 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers led by University of Texas researchers has spotted the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves in a binary...

Sep 6, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...