Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and observe an ionized nebula...

Sep 17, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of astronomers from Australia and Europe reporting in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, IRAS 15445-5449 – an...

Sep 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using data from NASA’s WISE mission and the Spitzer Space Telescope have found that ultra-cool Y-class brown dwarfs – the coldest...

Aug 29, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have identified the oldest solar twin known to date. This image shows the Sun-like star HIP 102152. Credit:...

Aug 21, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...

Aug 2, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from Taiwan and the UK has discovered two unusual subdwarf stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. This...

Jul 10, 2013 by News Staff

European astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama desert, have observed the birth of a massive...

Jun 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Multi-band observations of NGC 3766, an open star cluster located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have yielded the discovery...

Feb 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Dec 17, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to an international team of astronomers, bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in...

Dec 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to an international group of astronomers led by Dr Peter Tuthill of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Vega – the brightest star in the...

Nov 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers have reported results of a thirty-year study of a hypergiant star dubbed HR 8752 that passed through an evolutionary stage known as...

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...

Oct 11, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. Observations using ALMA have revealed an...

Oct 11, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...

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 –...

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 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...

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 20, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...