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Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of a rather unusual shell ejected by a “vampire star...
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Read moreResearchers Contribute to Discovery of Gamma Rays from Starburst Galaxy
The discovery has just been published by the journal Nature. The study reports that researchers using the VERITAS array of four telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona have dete...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreMagnetic Fields Play Larger Role in Star Formation than Previously Thought
A molecular cloud is a cloud of gas that acts as a stellar nursery. When a molecular cloud collapses, only a small fraction of the cloud's material forms stars. Scientists aren't sure why. ...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreGalaxy Research Earns Astronomer CAREER Award
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program has awarded $681,439 to IU Department of Astronomy assistant professor Katherine Rhode to enhance her research on globular clusters over the n...
Awards Funding | Read moreTrigger-happy star formation
While astronomers have long understood that stars and planets form from the collapse of a cloud of gas, the question of the main causes of this process has remained open.One option is that the...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreSeeing the Cosmos Through "Warm" Infrared Eyes
New images taken with two of Spitzer's infrared detector channels -- the two that work at the new warmer temperature -- demonstrate that the observatory remains a powerful tool for probing the du...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreCosmic dance helps galaxies lose weight
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and very faint, containing few stars relative to their total mass. They appear to be made mostly of dark matter - a mysterious substance detectable only by its grav...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreLargest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed
An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of ...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreFreedman, Kennicutt, Mould Share 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The recipients of the 2009 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation are Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, Califor...
Awards Funding | Read moreNew Technique Could Find Water on Earth-like Planets Orbiting Distant Suns
Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the one that i...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreCreating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets
Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems. Now researchers at the Harvard...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreResolving a Galactic Mystery
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of suc...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreErratic Black Hole Regulates Itself
Black holes come in many sizes: the supermassive ones, including those in quasars, which weigh in at millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and the much smaller stellar-mass black holes wh...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreFinding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought!
NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched to find such worlds. Once the search succeeds, the next questions driving research will be: Is that planet habitable? Does it have an Earth-like atmosphere?...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreTurbulence May Promote the Birth of Massive Stars
Within the Hunter’s sword, the Orion Nebula swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium. These stars are young but powerful, each one shining with the brilliance of 100,000 Suns. They are...
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