Astronomy
Hidden Stores of Deuterium Discovered in the Milky Way
A six year study by NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, or FUSE, satellite has turned up previously hidden quantities of…
Universe Has Used Up a Fifth of Its Gas Tank
Since the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe has converted 20% of its original matter into stars. This…
Swirling Pinwheels Near the Heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have gathered new data on a formation of stars called the Quintuplet cluster. These are a group of stars…
Hubble Reveals Dimmest Stars in a Nearby Cluster
New photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope show some of the faintest stars ever seen in a globular cluster. The…
Why Old Stars Seem to Lack Lithium
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope think they've found a solution to the "cosmological lithium discrepancy". A specific amount of…
Orion Revealed by Spitzer
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of the Orion Nebula using its Infrared Array Camera. In this infrared view,…
Officials Propose 12 Planets in the Solar System
The International Astronomical Union, currently meeting in Prague, has announced a proposal that would boost the number of planets in…
Hourglass-Shaped Magnetic Field Discovered
Astronomers have finally discovered an object that has long been theorized: an hourglass-shaped magnetic field in a star forming region.…
James Van Allen Dies
Renowned space scientist Dr. James A. Van Allen died this morning at the age of 91. Although he had a…
Chandra Confirms the Hubble Constant
Nearly every single astronomical measurement depends on the Hubble constant, a number that calculates the expansion of the Universe. NASA's…