Cosmology
Millisecond Pulsar Discovered In Rare Triple Star System
If you’re looking for something truly unique, then check out the cosmic menage aux trois ferreted out by a team…
Gravitational Lens Seen for the First Time in Gamma Rays
An exciting new discovery was unveiled early this week at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held…
Argon – The First Noble Gas Molecules Discovered In Space
There are only six of them: radon, helium, neon, krypton, xenon and the first molecules to be discovered in space…
Mapping Molecular Clouds Changes Astronomers Outlook On Starbirth
It didn’t happen overnight. By studying the properties of giant molecular clouds in the Whirlpool Galaxy for several years with…
Subaru Telescope Reveals Orderly Massive Galaxy Evolution
Nobody likes a sloppy COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey) and astronomers utilizing the Fiber-Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope…
Forging Stars – Peering Into Starbirth and Death
Some 160,000 light years away towards the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish), is an amazing area of starbirth and death.…
Anybody Want A Peanut? New Model Shows Tasty Orbital Shapes In Milky Way’s Bulge
Remember that 3-D map of the Milky Way that postulated that the center of the galaxy is shaped like a…
Astronomers Catch a Galactic Threesome in the Act
An enormous and incredibly luminous distant galaxy has turned out to actually be three galaxies in the process of merging…
‘Elephant Trunks’ Crowd Distant Star Cluster, Raising New Questions About Stellar Formation
Star winds are pushing the gas around NGC 3572 into "elephant trunks", as you can see if you look carefully as…