Astronomy
Galaxy Stripped Clear of Star Forming Material
A new photo of spiral galaxy NGC 4402 shows how it's being stripped of its star forming material as it…
Chandra Finds a Gamma Ray Blast Remnant
Combined data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Palomar 200-inch telescope have uncovered the remnant of a gamma-ray burst…
Super-Clusters of Galaxies Give Clues to the Big Bang
Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have embarked on a decade-long study of some of the largest structures, galaxy clusters,…
Spitzer Shows the Pinwheel Nebula
The latest image released from the Spitzer Space Telescope is of galaxy M33, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. It's…
Catching Stars in the Act of Forming Planets
Most research seems to indicate that planets form around stars in only the first few million years. Many stars have…
Star Production is Still High in our Galaxy
It seems that our Milky Way is producing stars much more rapidly than previously predicted by many astronomers. This is…
Quasars Come From Stable Homes
Quasars are some of the brightest and most distant objects ever observed, and astronomers used to believe they only existed…
Heaviest Stars are Twins
Astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found the heaviest star ever seen - 80 times the mass of…
New Theory Proposed for Solar System Formation
A new theory from researchers at Arizona State University challenges the traditional view of the formation of our Solar System.…
Cosmic Hurricane in Starburst Galaxy
M82, or the Starburst Galaxy, is one of the most studied galaxies in the night sky. New research from the…