Astronomy
New Discoveries About Gravitational Lenses
Astronomers have found several examples of galaxies which bend and focus the light from a more distant object, like a…
Clouds of Hydrogen Swarm Around Andromeda
A team of astronomers have discovered what seem to be clouds of hydrogen gas which were left over when the…
Are Galaxy Clusters Corrupting Our View of the Big Bang?
Astronomers made news in early 2003 with a precise measurement for the age of the Universe - 13.7 billion years…
Astronomers See a Star Before it Exploded
Astronomers working with the Gemini observatory were able to make detailed observations of an aging star only a little while…
Halo Around a Gamma Ray Burst
Using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and Integral observatories, astronomers have discovered glowing X-ray halos around powerful, but short-lived, gamma…
Stellar Nursary in the Rosette Nebula
Image credit: NOAO A Chinese and US astronomer have discovered a young star at the heart of the Rosette Nebula…
Distance to Pleiades Calculated
Image credit: NOAO Astronomers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have measured the distance to the Pleiades star cluster to greatest…
Selecting Stars Very Similar to Our Own
Image credit: John Rowe The search for Earthlike planets begins with the search for Sunlike stars. At the top of…
Planetary Nebula in Glowing Detail
Image credit: UA Astronomers with the University of Arizona tested a new infrared camera on the 6.5-metre MMTO telescope, and…
Evidence that Brown Dwarfs are Failed Stars
Image credit: UofM Researchers from the University of Michigan have gathered evidence that brown dwarf stars have a very similar…