Astronomy News

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 image of the giant bubble of material blown by powerful stellar winds of the massive Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896. This image shows a giant bubble of material blown by the Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896: X-ray data are shown in blue, optical data are in red and green. The pink star near the center of the image...

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...

Oct 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...

Oct 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales has captured an image of a supersonic...

Oct 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...

Oct 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have unveiled new high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing in detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the Sun. A...

Oct 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time. This...

Oct 17, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away. This...

Oct 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...

Oct 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...

Oct 11, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. Observations using ALMA have revealed an...