Kuiper Belt-Like Disks Around Two Nearby Stars
After surveying 22 nearby star systems, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered two bright debris disks that resemble our own…
Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered
A fleet of NASA and ESA spacecraft have spotted an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind…
Fossil Galaxy in the Early Universe
NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has spotted a distant dwarf galaxy undergoing a burst of star formation. This…
Kuiper Belt Moons Might Be More Common
Just a few years ago, Pluto was considered unusual for Kuiper Belt Objects because it has a moon. Now three…
Hit and Run Planets
The composition of many planets, asteroids and meteorites could be explained by the theory of "hit-and-run" collisions. Scientists originally believed…
The Stars That Shouldn’t Be
Arizona astronomers have found a collection of stars that really shouldn't exist. They're located in the debris of NGC 2782,…
Bringing Stardust Home
NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth early Sunday morning, bringing with it particles from a comet. Two members of Stardust's…
What’s Up This Week – January 16 – January 22, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The busiest place to be as the week begins is the "Beehive" and the peak of the…
Huygens Celebrates a Year on Titan
Just over a year ago, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe touched down on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest…
Dark Matter Galaxy?
Astronomers think they might have found a "dark galaxy", that has no stars and emits no light. Although the galaxy…