Hubble Provides Evidence for ‘Double Degenerate Progenitor’ Supernova
[/caption] What happened 400 years ago to create this stunningly beautiful supernova remnant – and were there two culprits or…
Dodging Black Hole Bullets
[/caption] In mid-2009 a binary star system cataloged as H H1743–322 shot off something very unusual. Poised about 28,000 light…
Wandering Stars Shed Light on Milky Way’s Past
[/caption]Like a worldly backpacker, many stars in the Milky Way Galaxy have made interesting journeys, and have interesting stories to…
Scientists Find Trio of Tiny Exoplanets
[/caption] NASA’s Kepler mission has detected no shortage of planets; more than a thousand candidates were discovered in 2011, a…
Microlensing Study Says Every Star in the Milky Way has Planets
[/caption] How common are planets in the Milky Way? A new study using gravitational microlensing suggests that every star in…
100 Year Starship Project Has a New Leader
[/caption] You may have heard by now about the 100 Year Starship project, a new research initiative to develop the…
What Color is the Milky Way? White as Snow (not Milk)
[/caption] What color would the Milky Way appear to alien civilizations looking at our galaxy through their telescopes? It turns…
Iconic Telescope Array Gets a New Name
[/caption] The pop culture-rich Very Large Array has been updated with state-of-the-art technology and to befit the VLA’s new capabilities,…
Clusters of Stars Crackle and Pop to Tell the Story of Star Formation
[/caption] Astronomers trying to understand the formation of massive clusters of stars are getting a better idea of how the…
NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Retires
[/caption] For more than 16 years, 2,200 papers in refereed journals, 92 doctoral theses, and more than 1,000 rapid notifications…