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Astronomers Discover Third-Closest Star System

Mar 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A newly discovered binary brown dwarf is the third-closest star system to our Solar System, and the closest system discovered since 1916. An artist’s...

This image combines data from ALMA and Hubble. Shown in red is the distant, background galaxy, being distorted by the gravitational lens effect produced by the galaxy in the foreground, shown in blue as measured by Hubble. The background galaxy appears warped into a so-called Einstein ring: a circle of light around the foreground galaxy (Dan Marrone)

ALMA Sees Highly Active Galaxies in Early Universe

Mar 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...

Image of the triplet quasar QQQ J1519+0627 (© Emanuele Paolo Farina, via Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Astronomers Detect Extremely Rare Triple Quasar

Mar 13, 2013 by News Staff

By combining multiple telescope observations and advanced modeling, a multinational team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare triple quasar...

PS1-12sk, circled, is classified as a very rare Type Ibn supernova - only the sixth such example found out of thousands of supernovae (CfA / PS1 Science Consortium)

Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Type Ibn Supernova

Mar 12, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...

This image shows a protoplanet circling the young star HD100546 (ESO)

Astronomers Capture First Photo of Jupiter-like Exoplanet Forming

Mar 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the...

Supernova 2013X (Southern Methodist University)

U.S. Astronomy Students Discover Two Type 1a Supernovae

Mar 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, using the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment’s telescope ROTSE3b at the McDonald...

This image shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a hot accretion disk, while some inspiraling material is funneled into a wispy blue jet (NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Astronomers: Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 1365 Spins at Nearly Light-Speed

Feb 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellites has been able...

This image shows the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy surrounded by a faint halo of old stars (NASA / ESA / A. Field, STScI)

Milky Way’s Cannibal Past Revealed

Feb 27, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

An artist’s impression of a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf. The ghostly blue ring is a planetary nebula - hydrogen gas the star ejected as it evolved from a red giant to a white dwarf (David A. Aguilar / CfA)

White Dwarfs Hold Key to Finding Extraterrestrial Life

Feb 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Kepler Discovers Tiny Extrasolar Planet

Feb 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has made the first observations of a planet outside our Solar System that’s...

VISTA Telescope Catches Space Lobster

Feb 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new infrared image from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile reveals a landscape of...

Astronomers Find Milky Way’s Youngest Black Hole

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This image...

Odd Protostar Puzzles Astronomers

Feb 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes has discovered a mysterious protostar that behaves like a...

Another Earth Only 13 Light-Years Away?

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...

Hubble Zooms in on Spiral Galaxy Messier 106

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...

Stunning New Views of Andromeda Galaxy Released

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...

‘Chameleon’ Pulsar Surprises Scientists

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...

Discovery Offers New Insights into Formation of Retrograde Exoplanets

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...

Herschel Sees Betelgeuse on Collision Course with ‘Dusty Wall’

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...