Astronomy
Brown Dwarf Lived Inside Another Star
ESO's Very Large Telescope has uncovered an interesting stellar pair: a hot white dwarf and a brown dwarf orbiting each…
Podcast: A Puzzling Difference
Imagine looking at red houses, and sometimes you see a crow fly past. But every time you look at a…
Strange Difference Between Gamma Ray Bursts and Quasars
Look at a quasar and a gamma ray burst - two of the most luminous objects in the Universe -…
The Largest Structure in the Universe
Astronomers have used the Subaru and Keck telescopes to discover gigantic filaments of galaxies stretching across 200 million light-years in…
Starburst Galaxy NGC 908
This photograph of galaxy NGC 908 was taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This spiral galaxy was…
New View on Pulsars
Pulsars are the rapidly spinning corpses of massive stars. And although they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, they still…
A New View of Quasars
Some of the brightest objects in the Universe are quasars. A mystery for decades, most astronomers now believe quasars are…
Podcast: Inevitable Supernova
Consider the dramatic binary system of RS Ophiuchi. A tiny white dwarf star, about the size of our Earth, is…
Planetary Disks Slow Stellar Rotation
New data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are giving astronomers a sense of how protoplanetary disks might act as a…
A Glimpse at the Future of Our Sun
A team of astronomers recently used Arizona's Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to peer 4 billion years…