New Findings Will Help Light the Way to Understanding Dark Energy
Astronomers used data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer to analyze several sites where dead stars once exploded, revealing that the Type Ia supernovae affiliated with…
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Chandra and Hubble Find Clues That May Help Identify Dark Matter
In a newly published study, astronomers used X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble to help narrow down the possibilities of what dark matter…
Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy
A newly published study is the first to directly connect a galaxy’s actively ‘feeding’ black hole to features found at much larger physical scales, revealing…
APEX Observations Unravel the Mystery of Nova Vulpeculae 1670
New observations reveal that the star that astronomers saw appear in the sky in 1670 was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed…
Astronomers View an Outbursting Class 0 Protostar
Satellite and ground-based data has revealed an outburst from HOPS 383. This is the first outburst astronomers have ever seen from a Class 0 object,…
Experimental Evidence That Stars May Generate Sound
A chance discovery by a team of physicists has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. The study of fluids in motion – now…
Astronomers Use Globular Clusters to Measure Galaxy Evolution
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that globular clusters are often gathered into distinct groupings whose shapes reflect the formation of…
SOFIA Reveals Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation
A newly published study reveals that supernovae are capable of producing enough material to form planets. Using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), an…
Research Shows Billions of Planets in the Milky Way Have the Potential for Life
Astronomers reveal that billions of the stars in the Milky Way will have one to three planets in the habitable zone, where there is the…
Young Star Cluster Displays Highly Efficient Star Formation
An international team discovers a remarkable star cluster where more than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases….
Classical Nova Explosion Could Have Big Impact
Astronomers used data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe the differences in GK Persei over a span of nearly 14 years, providing clues to…
Chiron May Possess Saturn-Like Rings
Using data from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, astronomers reveal features around Chiron that may signal rings, jets,…
Cosmic Bumps on Cosmic Ripples – Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used the South Pole Telescope to examine the SZE signatures of galaxy clusters, reporting an unexpectedly weak SZE…
Gamma-ray Emission from the Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxy May Point to Dark Matter
Researchers at Brown, Carnegie Mellon, and Cambridge have detected gamma ray emissions from dwarf galaxy Reticulum 2. This detection may be the signal of dark…
A “Rippled” Milky Way May Be Much Larger Than Previously Estimated
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a newly published study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reveals that a “rippled” Milky Way may be 50…
Survey of Carina Nebula Reveals Details of Star Formation
A newly published study about the Carina Nebula is helping astronomers better understand the processes that may have contributed to the formation of the sun…
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Set to Study Magnetic Reconnection Near Earth
The MMS mission is set to explore the magnetic reconnection at the nose of the magnetosphere, providing the first ever three-dimensional view of this process…
Astronomers Discover Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once. Astronomers have…
