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Countdown to the galactic census
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
On 19 December 2013, Europe's billion-star surveyor is due to be launched into space where it will embark on its mission to create a highly accurate 3D map of o...
Our Galaxy takes its food in pills
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
"Food pills" were a staple of science fiction for decades. For our Galaxy, they may be real. The Galaxy has been making stars for the last 8 billion years. What...
Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fa...
Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighborhood
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institu...
Debris from stellar explosions in the Galaxy's fast lane
Nov 22, 2013 (ESA)
Astronomers looking at the radioactive afterglow of supernovae with ESA's INTEGRAL mission have revealed that the remains of stellar explosions move through the...
NASA Sees 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst ...
WISE Catalog Just Got Wiser
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's WISE mission has released a new and improved atlas and catalog brimming with data on three-quarters of a billion objects detected during two full scans o...
Young stars paint spectacular stellar landscape
Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)
Most stars do not form alone, but with many siblings that are created at about the same time from a single cloud of gas and dust. NGC 3572, in the southern cons...
Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy
Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers studying gas halos around nearby galaxies were surprised when detailed studies with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Arra...
Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster
Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the centre of...
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star's Bubbly Birth
Nov 13, 2013 (JPL)
It's a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
Hubble catches stellar explosions in NGC 6984
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Supernovae are intensely bright objects. They are formed when a star reaches the end of its life with a dramatic explosion, expelling most of its material out i...
Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy, cosmic speed-up
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
In a new study, Dartmouth researchers rule out a controversial theory that the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion. While the findings don't e...
Astronomer, with International Team, Identifies Earliest Galaxy Ever Detected
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
In a major new survey of the early universe conducted from the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Mauro Giavalisco an...
Suzaku Study Points to Early Cosmic 'Seeding'
Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)
Most of the universe's heavy elements, including the iron central to life itself, formed early in cosmic history and spread throughout the universe, according t...
New dark matter detector sends first data from gold mine 1.5km underground
Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists testing the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment have reported promising scientific and technological results. They have set up the experiment to...
First results from LUX dark matter detector rule out some candidates
Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)
Results from the first run of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment operating a mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota, have proven the dete...
Galaxy Growth Examined Like Rings of a Tree
Nov 04, 2013 (JPL)
Watching a tree grow might be more frustrating than waiting for a pot to boil, but luckily for biologists, there are tree rings. Beginning at a tree trunk's den...
Former missile-tracking telescope helps reveal fate of baby pulsar
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
A radio telescope once used to track ballistic missiles has helped astronomers determine how the magnetic field structure and rotation of the young and rapidly ...
Could a Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in Next 50 Years
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers at The Ohio State University have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visi...
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