Astronomy News

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 false-color near-infrared image shows the planet Kappa Andromedae b (NOAJ / Subaru / J. Carson / College of Charleston) Kappa Andromedae is a B-type massive star located in the constellation Andromeda about 170 light years away. It has a mass 2.5 times that of the Sun and now holds the record...

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...

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...

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...