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X-ray Discovery Points To Location Of Missing MatterBoston MA (SPX) May 12, 2010 Using observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth. This discovery is the strongest evidence yet that the "missing matter" in the nearby Universe is located in an enormous web of hot, diffuse gas. This missing matter - which is different from dark matter - is composed of baryons, the particles, such as protons and electrons, that are found on t ... read more |
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Castel Gandolfo, Italy (AFP) May 4, 2010Jesuit priest Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican's astronomic observatory, says star-gazing brings him closer to God. "I became an astronomer in order to get closer to God who created the universe," said Funes at the observatory in the vast park surrounding the pope's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. "We wonder the same things that our secular colleagues do - how ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 04, 2010Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself - a discovery which could help solve one of astronomy's enduring conundrums: 'How do massive stars form?' Dr Peter Barnes from the University of Florida says astronomers have a good grasp of how stars such as our Sun form from clo ... more 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 04, 2010An international team of astrophysicists has just unveiled the most complete atlas of nuclear rings, enormous star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei. The catalogue, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, includes 113 such rings in 107 galaxies. "AINUR (the Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings) is the most complete atlas of nuclear ring ... more |
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Cassini And Amateurs Chase Storm On SaturnPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2010 With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere. The instrument collected the most detailed data to date of temperatures and gas distribution in that planet's storms. The data showed a large, turbulent storm, dredging up loads of material from the deep atmosphere and covering an area at least five times larger than the biggest blizzard in this year's Washingto ... read more |
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