The Submillimeter Array
Astronomers are meeting this week in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss recent advances generated by a new astronomical facility-the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
A joint project of the Smithsonian Astrop...
Baffling boxy bulge ... Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space T...
A new survey by University of Hawaii astronomers has found that, in a tug-of-war of cosmic proportions, our Milky Way galaxy is being pulled toward the largest concentration of matter in the observable Universe.
This finding is being presented today...
Discovery of the universe's hottest gas in a galaxy cluster ... Researchers focused on a distant object called the RXJ1347 galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy cluster is located about 5 billion light years from the earth. It...
The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University. ... The findings show that "stellar nurseries" within the first galaxies...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster.
Using Spitzer, scientists have detected organic molecules in galaxies when our universe was one-fourth of its curre...
It is one of the major goals of observational cosmology to trace the way galaxies formed and evolved and to compare it to predictions from theoretical models. It is therefore essential to know as precisely as possible how many galaxies were present i...
Swift XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into a Middleweight Black Hole ... Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hol...
A telescope designed by a University of Miami physicist and an international team of collaborators has produced the clearest images of starburst galaxies, revealing a new picture of the universe in its early stages ... Pe...
Supernova 2002bj in NGC 1821 ... A new type of supernova - the explosive death of a star has been discovered in which helium detonates on the surface of a white dwarf star. ... The exploding star, dubbed SN2002bj, was first observed seven ye...
A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2009kp, was discovered on the 3rd November, 2009, by T. Boles, in the spiral galaxy NGC 6246 in the constellation Draco. ... The supernova is located 15.0" west and 0.1" south from the center of the galaxy. ... A...
Most of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed doors – until now.
With its sharp infrared eyes, the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) peered through walls of galactic dust to uncover what may be the long-s...
A number of signals involving charged cosmic rays and high-energy photons have been interpreted as being due to annihilating Dark Matter. This article provides an overview of the experimental evidence and discusses in particular detections of antipro...
The Universe is beige ... ... After studying the colour of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies scientists have combined them to produce the colour, they have dubbed 'cosmic latte'. ... Other names suggested for it were 'univeige' and 'skyvory'....
Title: GRB090426: the farthest short gamma-ray burst? ... Authors: L. A. Antonelli, P. D Avanzo, R. Perna, L. Amati, S. Covino, S. Cutini, V. D Elia, S. Gallozzi, A. Grazian, E. Palazzi, S. Piranomonte, A. Rossi, S. Spiro, L. Stella, V....
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