Stars
Cosmic Fireworks: A Supernova Feast And Google+ Hangout For Chandra’s 15th Anniversary
It's well past the Fourth of July, but you can still easily find fireworks in the sky if you look…
Distant Stellar Atmospheres Shed Light on How Jupiter-like Planets Form
It’s likely that Jupiter-like planets’ origins root back to either the rapid collapse of a dense cloud or small rocky…
‘Gyrochronology’ Allows Astronomers to Find True Sun-like Stars
There’s no doubt the term “Earth-like” is a bit of a misnomer. It requires only that a planet is both…
Merging Giant Galaxies Sport ‘Blue Bling’ in New Hubble Pic
On a summer night, high above our heads, where the Northern Crown and Herdsman meet, a titanic new galaxy is…
The Making of the Pillars of Creation
It’s one of the most iconic images of the modern Space Age. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope team released…
How to Find Your Way Around the Milky Way This Summer
Look east on a dark June night and you'll get a face full of stars. Billions of them. With the moon now…
Hubble Hubba: Stars Are Being Born Around A Black Hole In Galaxy’s Center
Let's just casually look at this image of a galaxy 86 million light-years away from us. In the center of…
Too WISE to be Fooled by Dust: Over 300 New Star Clusters Discovered
Brazilian astronomers have discovered some 300+ star clusters that were largely overlooked owing to sizable obscuration by dust. The astronomers, from the Universidade…
‘Cosmic Zombie’ Star Triggered This Explosion In Nearby Galaxy
It might be a bad idea to get close to dead stars. Like a White Walker from Game of Thrones, this "cosmic…
Astronomers Find Evidence of a Strange Type of Star
One has never been spotted for sure in the wild jungle of strange stellar objects out there, but astronomers now…