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 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 12, 2009 
One of the hottest topics at this year's XXVIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involves the study of the astrophysical conditions favourable for the development and survival of primordial life. New research shows that compared to middle-aged stars like the Sun, newly formed stars spin faster generating strong magnetic fields that ... read more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2009An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe. Named the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS), the satellite will be the first to systematically measure the polarization of cosmic X-ray sources. "To date, astronomers have measured X-ray polarization from only a single ... more
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2009A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that, counter to expectations, they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas. The findings have implications for understanding the formation of galaxies and of the giant black holes that reside in their centers. "The first stars were much more massive than most stars we see today ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 12, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite. The pre-shipment review was completed on August 4 and followed assembly and performance testing. Ball Aerospace engineers have packed the satellite into a shipping container for delivery in mid-August to California's Vandenberg ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as Mercury, slammed into each other within the last few thousand years or so - not long ago by cosmic standards. The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 10, 2009Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. The fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2009The heavens were divine in origin and, as a consequence, had to be perfect in structure and form; hence the astronomers of antiquity sought to discover perfect geometrical forms in the celestial bodies and their movements - spheres and circles. Today, we still look at the stars, planets and their moons as spherical bodies. But smaller celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets are often ... more 
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2009Five months after it was launched on a mission to find earth-like planets, the Kepler space telescope has sent back to Earth high-precision images of a planet some 1,000 light years away, NASA said Thursday. But the real excitement at NASA was over how well Kepler was working, and the promise it holds for the future. With Kepler only in the calibration phase, the telescope, which was ... more |
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