Astronomy
A New Look at McNeil’s Nebula
Amateur astronomer Jay McNeil made a lucky discovery last month when he noticed a new smudge of dust in the…
Five Visible Planets Starting Tonight
Beginning tonight, and lasting for about two weeks, all five planets visible to the unaided eye will be in the…
Five Planets Visible in the Sky
Make sure you keep your eyes turned to the night sky for the next couple of weeks - you'll be…
Integral Solves a Gamma Ray Mystery
The ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has resolved the diffuse glow from the heart of the Milky Way into hundreds of…
Mountain of Sky Survey Data Released
One of the largest astronomy catalogs ever created was released to the public today by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.…
Astronomers Find a Second Pluto
A new object has been discovered in the Solar System; it's nearly as large as Pluto, but 13 billion kilometres…
Huge Submillimeter Instrument in the Works
Caltech and Cornell have begun a $2 million study to build a 25-metre telescope in the Atacama desert of northern…
Spitzer Looks at a Stellar Nursary
The newly-launched Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the Henize 206 nebula, located 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The…
Peering into the First Moments After the Big Bang
British astronomers have used a radio telescope called the Very Small Array to probe the cosmic background radiation; an afterglow…
Adaptive Optics Reveal Massive Star Formation
Astronomers at UC Berkeley took advantage of the newly installed adaptive optics system at the Lick Observatory to get clear…