Astronomy
Dark Energy Gets Another Boost
The theory that the expansion of our Universe is accelerating got another boost this week by a group of researchers…
Spitzer Finds Starburst Galaxies
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered a group of ancient galaxies that had eluded astronomers using other telescopes. The primordial…
Hotspot Found on Geminga
Astronomers have detected a small bright spot on a familiar neutron star, Geminga, located 500 light-years away. The hot spot…
Saturn and Jupiter Formed Differently
It appears that Jupiter and Saturn formed in completely different ways, according to a new computer simulation sponsored by the…
Brown Dwarf Pair Discovered
Astronomers with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a pair of brown dwarfs circling one another, which should…
Heavy Galaxies Evolved Early
New observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Paranal have disrupted theories that massive galaxies didn't evolve…
A Connection Between Dark Energy and Dark Matter?
The concepts of Dark Matter (hidden mass that surrounds all galaxies) and Dark Energy (an accelerating force on the Universe)…
New Observations of Procyon Defy Expectations
New observations of Procyon from MOST, Canada's space telescope, have called long-held assumptions about the star into doubt. Launched a…
Our Galactic Twin
The Spitzer Space Telescope has taken a picture of a galaxy called NGC 7331; astronomers believe it's a virtual twin…
This Star Just Shut Down
Astronomers have found a white dwarf star which has shut down its fusion reactor very recently - perhaps only 100…