May 16, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon...

May 15, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation. This artist’s impression shows a supermassive...

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 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...

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 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 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 2, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date. Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...

Nov 4, 2011 by News Staff

Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical...