Astronomy News

Apr 24, 2012 by News Staff

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new image of the Egg Nebula, a bipolar preplanetary nebula located about 3,000 light years away. The Egg Nebula (ESA / Hubble / NASA) The preplanetary nebula phase is a short period in the cycle of stellar evolution – over a few thousand years, the hot remains of the star in the center of the nebula heat it up, excite the gas, and make it glow as a planetary nebula. The short lifespan of preplanetary...

Apr 19, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a high-energy neutrino detector at the geographical South Pole in Antarctica, has reported results of a search...

Apr 16, 2012 by James Freeman

Astronomers have for the first time captured images of auroras above the giant planet Uranus. Uranus auroras, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in...

Apr 13, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...

Apr 12, 2012 by News Staff

An international group of scientists led by Dr. Barnaby Norris from the University of Sydney in Australia using new techniques which allowed them to look...

Apr 11, 2012 by James Freeman

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 4980, located around 80 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra. Spiral...

Apr 9, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, using images from NASA’s two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A and STEREO-B)...

Apr 4, 2012 by James Freeman

Scientists using observations from two ESA’s spacecrafts have created a multi-wavelength view of cataclysmic events taking place within the giant galaxy...

Apr 4, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists using long observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested a massive star that became the Cassiopeia A supernova...

Apr 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...

Mar 29, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way. Detail of a star-forming...

Mar 28, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...

Mar 27, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras. An...

Mar 23, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers has confirmed the possibility of existence of hypervelocity planets, which zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light...

Mar 21, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. A section of the widest deep view of the sky ever...

Mar 20, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond within a group of 250 galaxies...

Mar 16, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. Hubble...

Mar 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...

Mar 7, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...

Feb 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. An...