Astronomy
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…
High Mass Stars Form From Discs Too
European astronomers have found a large disc of dust and gas in nebula M 17, which seems to be forming…
Searching for a Way to Test String Theory
String theorists have a problem. They have a set of theories which could explain how all the forces in the…
Powerful Flare Seen on a Distant Star
Astronomers have had plenty of time to observe the fluctuations of the Sun, but until now, it's been unclear if…
Chandra Sees Violent M87 Galaxy
A new image released from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows the giant elliptical galaxy M87. Bright jets can be seen…