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 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 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...

Oct 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183. NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...

Sep 26, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have assembled a new portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe by combining 10 years of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observations. This...

Sep 21, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of an actively star-forming galaxy known as NGC 7090. This image shows the...

Sep 20, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have discovered what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the young...

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 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 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 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 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 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...

Aug 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the University of California have found outflowing galactic winds with velocities up to 2,500 km per second that they detected in 29 massive...

Aug 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. This is a Hubble...