Astronomy News

Nov 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole about 12.4 billion light years away, the most distant X-ray jet ever observed. This is a composite image of the record-setting X-ray jet produced by the quasar GB 1428+4217 (X-ray: NASA / CXC / NRC / C.Cheung et al; optical: NASA / STScI; radio: NSF / NRAO / VLA) According to the study published in the Astrophysical...

Nov 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. This Hubble image...

Nov 28, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five...

Nov 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has published a list of 165 young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs within 100 light-years of Sun – targets for...

Nov 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers have reported results of a thirty-year study of a hypergiant star dubbed HR 8752 that passed through an evolutionary stage known as...

Nov 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the New Technology Telescope, and TRAPPIST: TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope,...

Nov 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...

Nov 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A study by Dr Stephen Curran of the University of Sydney and Dr Matthew Whiting of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science has addressed the mystery of why...

Nov 20, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has discovered a super-Jupiter around the star Kappa Andromedae. This...

Nov 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories to peer at the heart of the planetary...

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...

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...