Dwarf Galaxy M60-UCD1 – The Densest Galaxy
In a newly published study, astronomers detail the discovery of an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, called M60-UCD1, that has a stellar mass density of over one…
In a newly published study, astronomers detail the discovery of an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, called M60-UCD1, that has a stellar mass density of over one…
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database, researchers discovered more than 600 “red nugget” galaxy candidates located at distances of 2.5 to 5.7 billion light-years…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered the largest known group of star clusters and have confirmed that such compact groupings can be used…
A newly published study has confirmed that the 36-year-old NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has left our solar system and has entered interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager…
Using ESO data, two groups of scientists have produced detailed three-dimensional images of the stars that form the inner regions of our Milky Way. Two…
In a newly published study, researchers detail how they developed and used computer models simulating galaxy evolution to help explain why all disk galaxies eventually…
New research presented to the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL aims to explore how atmospheric biomarkers from faraway planets might be detected in the…
A newly published study details how astronomers used both data from telescopes and newly developed computer modeling to solve a 20-year debate over how dark…
A team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft to deduce the characteristics of nanodust, showing…
A team of physicists has developed a theoretical model to help explain some of the deviations between previous measurements of the expansion rate of the…
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see massive clumps of cold gas being pushed away from the…
In a new study, scientists report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by NuSTAR. NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,…
Based on data spanning four decades from eleven different spacecraft, a new study shows that interstellar wind most likely changed direction over the last 40…
A newly published study measures distances, luminosities, and temperatures of brown dwarfs, finding that they are warmer than previously thought with temperatures about 400-450 K…
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute and the Perimeter Institute in Canada have developed a new approach to the unification of the general theory of…
After 10 years of planning, building, and testing, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has officially begun. Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the…
Using Pan-STARRS and UKIDSS, astronomers discovered 673 binaries with candidate brown dwarf companions. Astronomers trying to understand how the Sun and Earth formed, and why…
This new image from the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (PRESSTO) shows spiral galaxy Messier 74 and its new supernova, SN2013ej. ESO’s PESSTO…