Astronomy
Galaxy Orbiting Milky Way in the Wrong Direction
Image credit: NRAO Before this week, "Complex H" was thought to be a strange cloud of stars with an unusual…
Uncovering More Details About the Solar Wind
Image credit: SOHO The ESA's SOHO spacecraft has uncovered new details about the Sun's solar wind which might overturn previously…
Researchers Stop Light in Its Tracks
Image credit: NASA Researchers at Harvard University demonstrated that they can slow light and even completely stop it for several…
Newly Discovered Star Could Be the Third Closest
Image credit: NASA NASA astronomers have discovered what they believe could be the third closest star to our own Sun.…
Satellite Monitors Dangerous Glacier
Image credit: NASA NASA's Terra satellite is keeping a watchful camera pointed towards a glacier in the mountains of Peru.…
X-Rays Seen from Brown Dwarf Star
Image credit: Chandra The latest photos released from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory show x-rays produced from a brown dwarf which…
Japanese Detect Most Distant Galaxy
Image credit: Subaru Telescope The Subaru telescope, based in Japan, has detected the most distant galaxy ever recorded at 12.8…
New Study of Virgo Galaxy Cluster
Image credit: ESO New observations from the Japanese 8-m Subaru telescope and the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed…
Nearest Brown Dwarf Found
Image credit: ESO A team of European astronomers have located the closest brown dwarf star ever discovered. Epsilon Indi, located…
Supernova Won’t Destroy the World
Image credit: Hubble Just in case you were worried, it appears that a supernova would have to be really really…