Spitzer
Solid Buckyballs in Space are Stacked Like ‘Oranges in a Crate’
[/caption] From a JPL press release: Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered…
Watch Live Webcast from the Keck Observatory
On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, Keck Observatory will be hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Tom…
Emerging Supermassive Black Holes Choke Star Formation
[/caption] Located on the Chajnantor plateau in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, ESO's APEX telescope has been busy looking…
New Research Suggests Fomalhaut b May Not Be a Planet After All
[/caption] When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first…
Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’
[/caption] Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that…
Cooking Up Stars In Cygnus X
[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…
We Are Stardust… We Are Cold Then
[/caption] When we think of stars, we might think of their building blocks as white hot... But that's not particularly…
A Star-Making Blob from the Cosmic Dawn
[/caption] Looking back in time with some of our best telescopes, astronomers have found one of the most distant and…
In The Dragonfish’s Mouth – The Next Generation Of “SuperStars”
[/caption] At the University of Toronto, a trio of astronomers have been fishing - fishing for a copious catch of…
Astronomers Discover Ancient ‘Ultra-Red’ Galaxies
[/caption]A team of astronomers, led by Jiasheng Huang (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered four…