 Famous Supernovae Still Echo Across the Milky Way May 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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While walking home on November 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe idly glanced at the sky. He was surprised to see a bright star in the constellation Cassiopeia that hadn’t been there before. The new star, which ... | |
 Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova May 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. By decoding ghostly echoes of light traveling away from the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia ... | |
 Scientists find giant ring encircling exotic dead star May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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One of the most powerful eruptions in the universe might have spun an infrared ring around a rare and exotic star known as a magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova ... | |
 The little man and the cosmic cauldron May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope's First Light, ESO is releasing two stunning images of different kinds of nebulae, located towards the Carina constellation. The first one, ... | |
 Close-up of a dying heavyweight May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich have for the first time taken a close-up of an individual ... | |
Solar Eruption Seen in Unprecedented Detail May 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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On April 9, the Sun erupted and blasted a bubble of hot, ionized gas into the solar system. The eruption was observed in unprecedented detail by a fleet of spacecraft, revealing new features that are predicted by computer ... | |
 The behemoth has a thick belt May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Talk about a diet! By resolving, for the first time, features of an individual star in a neighbouring galaxy, ESO's VLT has allowed astronomers to determine that it weighs almost half of what was previously ... | |
 COROT's exoplanet hunt update May 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Two new exoplanets and an unknown celestial object are the latest findings of the COROT mission. These discoveries mean that the mission has now found a total of four new exoplanets. | |
 Twinkle, twinkle, any star - Sun not so special May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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ANU astronomers have found there is nothing special about the Sun after conducting the most comprehensive comparison of it with other stars – adding weight to the idea that life could be common in the universe. | |
 Swift satellite catches first 'normal' supernova in the act of exploding May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Thanks to a fortunate observation with NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers, for the first time, have caught a normal supernova at the moment of its birth--the first instant when an exploding star begins spewing ... | |
 Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web May 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Although the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount of its matter is locked up in these behemoths. Most of the universe's matter that was created during and just after the Big Bang must ... | |
 Antennae Galaxies May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star ... | |
 The mouse that roared: pipsqueak star unleashes monster flare May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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On April 25, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun. The flare, an explosive release of energy from a star, packed the power of thousands of solar ... | |
Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ... | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
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