Astronomy
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…
Einstein’s Cosmological Constant Predicts Dark Energy
Researchers are finding that the mysterious dark energy found to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe is remarkably well…
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…