New ESO Image Shows Lupus 3
A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows Lupus 3, a cloud that contains huge amounts of cool cosmic dust and a place where…
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Hubble Views Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5477
Created from a combination of exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, this new Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy NGC 5477 and the clouds of…
Nearby Star Is at Least 13.2 Billion Years Old
Astronomers have discovered one of the oldest stars in the known universe. They believe it is at least 13.2 billion years old and formed shortly…
ALMA Views a Key Stage in the Birth of Giant Planets
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have made the first direct observations of the streams of gas that flow across a gap in the disc of…
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…
Hubble Data Reveals That Globular Clusters Age at Different Rates
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars…
Vega Older Than Previously Thought, Could Harbor Life
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is the fifth brightest star in the sky. In 1983, astronomers…
Graphite Experiment Shines New Light on Laser-Driven Nuclear Fusion and Astrophysics
A newly published study, which examines how energy is shared between the different species of matter and how it is transferred from strongly heated electrons…
WISE Discovers Mystery Dust Around an Unusual Class of Interacting Binary Stars
Astronomers discovered dust around an unusual class of interacting binary stars, a highly magnetic white dwarf star that is Earth-sized but weighs about 60 percent…
The Triangulum Stream, Remnant of a Star Cluster Being Ingested by the Milky Way
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a team of scientists have discovered a band of stars, named the Triangulum stream, in the southern Galactic sky…
Cosmic Spiral Around Red Giant Star R Sculptoris Could Elucidate Stellar Evolution
R Sculptoris, an elderly star, located 1,500 light-years from Earth, has been observed in the final stages of stellar life, slowly shedding the outer layers…