Astronomy
Outer Planets Could Warm Up as Sun Dies
The Sun is heating up, and in 4 billion years from now it will swell up to become a red…
Milky Way is a Dangerous, Turbulent Place
After 15 years of observation, over the course of more than 1,000 nights, a European team of astronomers has collected…
Andromeda’s Carnage
An international team of astronomers have mapped a sizable region of space around the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and have found…
Milky Way’s Centre Measured
Radio astronomers have successfully measured an object that surrounds the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way…
Astronomers Discover Mini-Galaxies
A survey with the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) has revealed dozens of miniature galaxies the nearby Fornax galaxy cluster. These are…
Venus Near Pleiades For a Few Days
Venus, currently the brightest "star" in the sky, will spend the next few days passing through the Pleiades star cluster,…
New Study Finds Fundamental Force Hasn’t Changed Over Time
In order the represent the Universe mathematically, physicists use a handful of constants, such as the speed of light, or…
Chandra Sees Magnesium in an Exploded Star
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has found unexpectedly large quantities of magnesium in an exploded star called N49B. N49B exploded as…
New Proposal to Search for Dark Matter
Dark matter is a mystery. Astronomers know it's there because they can measure the effect of its gravity on stars…
Supernova Explodes Inside a Nebula
Astronomers have measured the light from a supernova, and believe that it was inside a very unusual star system when…