Astronomy
Use Galactic Gravitational Lenses to Really See the Universe
To see any distance in space, you need some kind of telescope. We've got some pretty powerful ones here on…
Insanely High Resolution Photo of the Tarantula Nebula
I'm not sure why, but the European Southern Observatory has decided to give their web servers and bandwidth a real…
Next Up, the COROT Space Telescope
Step aside Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, there's a new space telescope ready for launch. On December 27, 2006, the European Space…
Here’s a New Way to Explode: Hybrid Gamma-Ray Burst
Just when you thought you'd figured out all the ways to blow up, nature reveals a new way. This latest…
Happy Hubble Holidays
The fine folks at the Hubble Space Telescope released this photograph today to celebrate the holidays. I'm not sure which…
How Multiple Star Systems Come Together
Multiple star systems are a staple of science fiction. The heroes stumble across a parched desert searching for some escape…
Spitzer Looks Right Back to the First Stars
After the Big Bang there were the first stars. Astronomers think these monsters contained more than 1,000 times the mass…
Star Formation Factory
You're looking at a star forming region known as W3. It's located about 6,000 light-years from Earth in the Perseus…
New Technique Could Reveal Dark Matter
Dark matter is invisible to all our instruments, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. It does reach out to…
Heavy Stars Embedded in NGC 6357
This Hubble photograph shows star cluster Pismis 24, which lies at the heart of emission nebula NGC 6357. The stars…