Astronomy
Interesting Views from an Airplane
If you're going to be traveling by airplane, take a look out the window; you might be amazed. On the…
Simulation Casts Doubts on One Theory of Star Formation
Astrophysicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a computer simulation that fails to support one of two major theories…
New Class of Supergiant Binary Stars Discovered
ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new class of X-ray fast transient binary stars, which had gone undiscovered in…
Spitzer Sees a Group of Baby Stars
Star-forming region NGC 1333 is located 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus, and is normally enshrouded by thick dust.…
Spitzer’s Version of the Pillars of Creation
One of the most iconic images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is of the Eagle Nebula, aka the "Pillars…
Star on the Run
Astronomers have discovered a massive star moving extremely quickly through the outer halo of the Milky Way, and into intergalactic…
ESO Image of Robert’s Quartet
The European Southern Observatory has released a beautiful high resolution image of Robert's Quartet; a group of 4 very different…
Cosmic Cloudshine
We only see material in the Universe when it's hot enough to glow, like stars, hot clouds of gas or…
Best View of the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), to peer deeper into the heart of…
First Light of the Universe?
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope might have captured images of the first stars in the Universe, glimpsing an era more than…