Astronomy
How Do Large Galaxies Form?
Most large galaxies have the familiar spiral shaped disc surrounding a central bulge. But when and how do these galaxies…
Keck View of the Water Fountain Nebula
The powerful W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii took this image of a dying star nicknamed the "Water Fountain Nebula".…
Galaxy Has Leftover Material from the Big Bang
A researcher from Indiana University Bloomington has discovered what could be primordial hydrogen, unchanged since the Big Bang. This hydrogen…
Stellar Incubators in the Trifid Nebula
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a hatchery for new stars in the Trifid Nebula. Obscured…
Cluster Filled with Pulsars
A dense globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way has been found to contain dozens of rapidly-spinning microsecond…
New Stars Forming in Our Closest Neighbour
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy located 210,000…
New View of Colliding Galaxies
The W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii took this photograph of two galaxies about to collide over 5 billion light-years away…
Gemini Sees Smashing Planetesimals
Astronomers using the giant Gemini South 8-metre telescope in Chile have spotted what seems to be a collision between two…
Super Star Clusters Started Small
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped to reveal a trio of massive, young star clusters which might have been formed…
White Dwarf Theories Get More Proof
New observations using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite have given astronomers evidence that their assumptions and calculations about…