PESSTO Survey Views Spiral Galaxy Messier 74
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…
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…
Astronomers from the University of British Columbia have identified a 60-kilometer-wide (37-mile-wide) asteroid that shares the orbit of Uranus. UBC astronomers have discovered the first…
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Using the combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs, the Einstein@Home project discovered 24 new pulsars in archival data. The combined computing power of 200,000…
Scientists view a rare multiple quasar imaging event caused by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in the Milky Way Galaxy. For the…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have identified the star HIP 102152 as the oldest solar twin known to date. An international team led by…
By comparing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared observations by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, astronomers discovered an almost linear relationship between…
A new study from the University of Oxford looks at the possibility of human colonization throughout the universe. Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau, finding that a “fluffy” layer above the disk appears to…
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected…
A new technique developed by astronomers simplifies the measurement of a star’s surface gravity using its light flickers, which enhances our understanding of its physical…
NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope completes five years of space exploration, now scientists prepare for several more years of observations as Fermi enters an extended phase…
The post has been updated to reflect another CME that was detected on August 21, 2013, at 1:24 am EDT….Scroll to the bottom of the…
A new theory from researchers at UC Berkeley explains how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting in the journal…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have captured a close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star, discovering that its jets are…
Using the data from several telescopes, astronomers measured the mass and density of a large number of the globulettes found in the Rosetts Nebula, finding…
Scientists from MIT have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, named Kepler 78b, that orbits its star every 8.5 hours and has estimated surface temperatures as high…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a magnetar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a magnetar at the center…