Astronomy
Buffy the Kuiper Belt Object
An international team of astronomers have discovered a new large object in the Kuiper Belt; a region of the Solar…
Spitzer Finds More than 100 New Star Clusters
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found more than 100 new star clusters hidden within the dusty areas of our own…
Detailed Dark Matter Maps
Even through scientists have no idea what dark matter really is, they're able to see its effect on regular matter,…
Zeiss Optics in Hubble’s Successor
Germany's Carl Zeiss Optronics has signed a contract to supply the optical system for two instruments to be installed on…
Galaxies Colliding All Around Us
The history of our nearby Universe has been dominated by galactic collisions. More than half of the nearby galaxies have…
Chandra Views the Perseus Cluster
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has gathered 280 hours worth of data on the Perseus galaxy cluster to reveal massive amounts…
Dwarf Galaxies are Ablaze in Star Formation
When galaxies collide, it's a messy affair. Gas, dust and stars are often spun out into space and can form…
Teeny Tiny Solar System
Astronomers from Penn State University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found a miniature solar system in the making.…
SOHO Celebrates 10 Years
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is celebrating its 10th anniversary of operations on December 2nd, 2005. Over the course…
AMBER Instrument Combines Three Telescopes
The newly installed AMBER instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer combines the light from two or three 8.2 metre…