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Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution

Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)

Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered tantalizing evidence ...

Sweeping the Dust from a Cosmic Lobster

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

A new image from ESO's VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared v...

NASA's Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

A new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence the expanding debris of exploded stars produces ...

3-D Observations Of The Outflow From An Active Galactic Nucleus

Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)

A Japanese team of astronomers, led by Toru Misawa (Shinshu University), has used the Subaru Telescope to observe a distant gravitationally-lensed quasar (Note ...

Searching for the Solar System's Chemical Recipe

Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)

By studying the origins of different isotope ratios among the elements that make up today's smorgasbord of planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and interplanetary...

A cool discovery about the Sun's next-door twin

Feb 21, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun...

A drop of ink on the luminous sky

Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)

This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky - the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge numbe...

Gaia Will Reveal Secrets of Ultra-Cool Dwarfs

Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)

Among the hundred billion stars which can be observed in the Milky Way, there is a group of stars, the so-named ultra-cool dwarfs, defined as stars with a tempe...

Scientists sense breakthroughs in dark-matter mystery

Feb 18, 2013 (AFP)

For decades, the strange substance called dark matter has teased physicists, challenging conventional notions of the cosmos. Today, though, scientists believe t...

Bern Simulation Helps Understand Origin Of Solar System

Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)

Simulations boost the significance of image and measurement data from space missions: based on the example of an asteroid, Bernese astrophysicist Martin Jutzi s...

Cosmic rays come from exploding stars

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

A new study confirms what scientists have long suspected: Cosmic rays - energetic particles that pelt Earth from all directions - are born in the violent afterm...

Searching for magnetic monopoles in polar rocks

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

The first search for magnetic monopoles in mantle-derived polar igneous rocks - thought to be likely to contain a higher ratio of monopoles to matter - has been...

Clues to the mysterious origin of cosmic rays

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

In the year 1006 a new star was seen in the southern skies and widely recorded around the world. It was many times brighter than the planet Venus and may even h...

JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission

Feb 15, 2013 (JPL)

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one team led by NASA's...

A Valentine Rose

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

This image of a planetary nebula, which may suggest a rose to some, was obtained with the wide-field view of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) M...

MOND used to predict key property in Andromeda's satellites

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in ...

Extremely bright supernovae may break the Chandrasekhar limit

Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)

White dwarfs forming in extreme magnetic fields could be stabilized, allowing them to get bigger before they explode, leading to a brighter bang when they final...

Cosmic ray mystery lifted in new findings

Feb 14, 2013 (AFP)

Cosmic rays -- fast-moving particles that constantly pummel our planet -- come from the explosion of supernovae, new research confirmed Thursday, resolving an a...

Euclid Could Solve The Dark Mysteries Of The Universe

Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)

Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Brice Menard and Charles L. Bennett have been appointed to the Euclid Consortium, the international team of scientists overseeing ...

Observed: The outburst before the blast

Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)

Before they go all-out supernova, certain large stars undergo a sort of "mini-explosion," throwing a good-sized chunk of their material off into space. Though s...