Black holes, galaxies young and old visible in massive mapping of the night sky October 03, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe that combines ... | |
 Mysterious Lunar Swirls June 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Picture this: A cup of coffee, steaming and black. Add a dollop of milk and gently stir. Eddies of cream go swirling around the cup. Magnify that image a million times and you've got a Lunar Swirl. | |
 Enceladus geysers mask the length of Saturn's day March 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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In a David and Goliath story of Saturnian proportions, the little moon Enceladus is weighing down giant Saturn’s magnetic field so much that the field is rotating slower than the planet. This phenomenon makes ... | |
Focus on Europa, planetary scientist says February 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it. That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are ... | |
 How to Bake a Galaxy June 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Start with lots and lots of dark matter, then stir in gas. Let the mixture sit for a while, and a galaxy should rise up out of the batter. This simple recipe for baking galaxies cannot be performed at home, ... | |
 VLA Discovers Giant Rings Around Galaxy Cluster November 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have discovered giant, ring-like structures around a cluster of galaxies. The discovery provides tantalizing new information ... | |
 Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System September 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
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Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. Pointing at nothing, or so it seems, they invariably pick up a signal, faint but ... | |
 Astronomers weigh 200-million-year-old baby galaxies October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Astronomers have taken amazing pictures of two of the most distant galaxies ever seen. The ultradeep images, taken at infrared wavelengths, confirm for the first time that these celestial cherubs are real. ... | |
 Paranal receives new mirror April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A 4.1-metre diameter primary mirror, a vital part of the world's newest and fastest survey telescope, VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has been delivered to its new mountaintop ... | |
When galaxies collide: Supercomputers reproduce fluid motions of cosmic duet May 31, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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A wispy collection of atoms and molecules fuels the vast cosmic maelstroms produced by colliding galaxies and merging supermassive black holes, according to some of the most advanced supercomputer simulations ever conducted ... | |
 Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit June 15, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini ... | |
 Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin April 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a ... | |
 Hubble Telescope Celebrates SN 1987A's 20th Anniversary February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following ... | |
 Supernova impostor goes supernova April 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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In a galaxy far, far away, a massive star suffered a nasty double whammy. On Oct. 20, 2004, Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki saw the star let loose an outburst so bright that it was initially mistaken ... | |
 Ultraviolet gives view inside real 'death star' June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star giving vital evidence of how stars turn into supernovae. | |
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