Astronomy News

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 planets orbiting stars in the Beehive cluster (NASA / JPL-Caltech) The planets dubbed Pr0201b and Pr0211b are hot Jupiters, which are massive, gaseous orbs that are boiling hot because they orbit tightly around their parent stars. Each hot Jupiter circles a different Sun-like star in the Beehive Cluster,...

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...

Sep 5, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have released a new image of the globular star cluster Messier 4. This image shows the spectacular...

Sep 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away. Artist’s...

Sep 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163. Artist’s...

Sep 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...

Aug 31, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered an ultra-luminous supernova in a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years away and used it as a...

Aug 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new X-ray image of NGC 1929, a star cluster embedded in the N44 nebula, which...

Aug 30, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered millions of supermassive black hole candidates across the Universe and...

Aug 29, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array have detected molecules of glycolaldehyde – a simple form of sugar – in...

Aug 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system. Artist’s...

Aug 23, 2012 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours. Image shows one of the two ‘exact...