Aug 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astronomers at the University of Bonn in Germany has suggested that the four ultramassive stars, discovered two years ago and located in the...

Jul 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...

Jul 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

For the first time ever, astronomers from NASA and the University of Tübingen in Germany have detected rare noble gases krypton and xenon in the spectrum...

Jul 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has announced a baffling discovery never seen before: an extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star mysteriously...

Jul 6, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers working with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Hawaii have discovered four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. This...

Jul 4, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers combining data from the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, the ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Jul 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Hubble...

Jun 20, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

European astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...