Astrophysicists Discover Black Holes in Globular Star Clusters
Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of astrophysicists discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy….
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Astronomers Estimate One in Five Sol-Like Stars Have Planets Conducive to Life
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like our Sun have planets about the…
Kepler Data Reveal the Discovery of 833 New Candidate Planets
The latest analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data has revealed the discovery of 833 new candidate planets; ten of these candidates are less than twice…
Astrophysicists Show How Universe’s Violent Youth Seeded Cosmos with Iron
The even distribution of iron throughout the Perseus cluster has allowed astrophysicists to tell the billion-year-old story of how exploding stars and black holes sowed…
Chandra Views Glowing Gas in the Milky Way, NGC 3576
Released to the public for the first time, this Chandra/ESO image shows NGC 3576. A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of…
Smith Cloud Heading Toward the Milky Way at More Than 150 Miles Per Second
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers discovered a magnetic field deep in…
New Evidence Supports “Inside-Out” Theory of Galaxy Evolution
Using data from NASA’s WISE and GALEX missions, astronomers have gathered new evidence for the “inside-out” theory of galaxy growth, showing that bursts of star…
WISE Views the Witch Head Nebula
This newly released WISE image shows the Witch Head nebula, which is located in the Orion constellation. A witch appears to be screaming out into…
Uniform Heavy Element Distribution Points to Early Cosmic ‘Seeding’
Using Suzaku’s X-ray telescopes to make 84 observations of the Perseus Cluster, researchers discovered that most of the universe’s heavy elements, including the iron central…
Kepler-78b, A Lava World with an Earth-Like Density
Astronomers discover the first known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density, a scorching lava world that circles its star every eight and a half hours…
Hubble Views Proxima Centauri
This newly released Hubble image shows Proxima Centauri, which is located just over four light-years from Earth. Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our…
A Rare View of a Planetary Construction Site in an Intermediate State of Evolution
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around the star HD 21997 appears to contain both primordial gas…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Views Dying Stars
Three newly released images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show the remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are…
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Releases Eight Never Before Seen Images
To celebrate and support American Archive Month, eight never-before-seen images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory archive have been released. Every year, October is designated as…
ALMA Observations Show Unique Chemical Composition Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of scientists captured a detailed image of high-density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at…
NASA Study Reveals that Carbon Planets May be Waterless
Using planetary models based on measurements of our sun’s carbon-to-oxygen ratio, researchers found that planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans….
ALMA Views the Coldest Place in the Universe: The Boomerang Nebula
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. At a cosmologically crisp one degree…
NASA to Look Deeper Into the Universe than Ever Before
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…