Scientists Discover a New Type of Supernova
Astronomers have discovered a new type of supernova that may not completely destroy the white dwarf. Called Type Iax, this new supernova is fainter and…
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Researchers Study Early Galaxies and Their Specific Properties
Using data from the CANDELS project, scientists examine early galaxies and their specific properties, finding that star formation in blue galaxies have undergone collisions that…
New Model Advances the Understanding of How Solar Wind Works
A newly published study uses a new model to demonstrate ion-cyclotron resonant heating in solar wind; representing a major advance in the understanding of how…
Preparing for Pluto’s Undiscovered Satellites
New computer simulations suggest that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will encounter many small satellites as it nears the binary planet Pluto-Charon in 2015. In 2015,…
Scientists Discover an Outflow From a Young Protostar
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, scientists discovered an outflow from a young protostar, marking a dramatic step towards understanding the earliest stages of a…
Researchers Discovered a Very Rare Type Ibn Supernova
Using the Pan-STARRS telescope, researchers discovered a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of an elliptical galaxy. The star Eta Carinae is ready…
Kepler Finds Over 2,300 Candidate Exoplanets
In a newly released study, researchers state that the Kepler spacecraft has found over 2,300 candidate exoplanets in its observations during the first sixteen months…
Diagnosing the X-Ray Variability in Active Galaxy NGC 4507
A group of astronomers used the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites to study the X-ray variability of the active galaxy NGC 4507, finding that significant variations…
Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life Might Come From Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
In a new study, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggest that future evidence for extraterrestrial life might come from planets orbiting dying stars…
Earth-like Planets May Have Older and More Evolved Life
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs live much longer…
Magnetized Outflows From Center of the Milky Way Are Driven by Star-Formation Activity
In a newly published study, a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory suggest that the recently discovered twin lobes of gamma-ray emission protruding…
CfA Astronomers Shed New Light on Dust Grains
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a series of computations that will shed new light on some of the…
Astronomers Identify the First “Bone” of the Milky Way
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they…
Kepler Data Suggests 17 Billion Earth-Sized Worlds in the Milky Way
According to a new study presented at the American Astronomical Society, one in six stars has an Earth-sized planet in an orbit of 85 days…
Masers as Evolutionary Indicators for Star Formation
SAO astronomers provide the first unambiguous evidence that Class I masers may be excited by both young (hot core) and older (UC H II) MYSOs…
Disk Around Protostar L1527 IRS Behaves Like a Proto Solar-System
Using the Submillimeter Array and another radio telescope to study the disk around protostar L1527 IRS, astronomers were able to measure properties of the circumstellar…
A New Subclass of Extra-Solar Planets Discovered
Using the HATNet telescopes, CfA astronomers and colleagues discovered three new hot Jupiters and identified a new subclass of extra-solar planets, dubbed “highly inflated Jupiters.”…
The Behavior of Interstellar Dust Grains
In a newly published study, a team of scientists report the results of their theoretical models of the behavior of interstellar dust grains as the…
