Astronomy News

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 – the shortest known orbit of any star near this black hole. This Keck Observatory image shows the short-period star S0-102, the star S0-2 and the electromagnetic counterpart of the black hole, Sgr A* (L. Meyer et al) “The star, known as S0-102, may help astronomers discover whether Albert Einstein...

Oct 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, USA, have discovered two black holes inside an ancient...

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 28, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astrophysicists has the first time measured the black hole’s ‘point of no return’ – the closest distance that...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new image of part of the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas known as Sharpless 2-292...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...

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 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and Japan’s Suzaku have provided evidence that our Galaxy...

Sep 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars. This artist’s...

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 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...

Sep 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The Dark Energy Camera – the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created – has recorded first images in hunt for dark energy, according...

Sep 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster. An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...

Sep 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested that a stellar explosion known as the Kepler’s...

Sep 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...

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 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 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...

Sep 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold. This image...