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An Older Vega: New Insights About The Star All Others Are Measured By

Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)

Vega, a star astronomers have used as a touchstone to measure other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be more than 200 million years older than prev...

NASA Astrobiology Institute Shows How Wide Binary Stars Form

Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)

Using computer simulations, scientists from the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at the University of Hawaii are shedding light on a question that has challenge...

Unvieling diffuse x-ray emission from nearby galaxies

Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)

NASA will launch an astrophysics mission to study the Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy (DXL) December 9 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Me...

Fermi Improves its Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes

Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)

Thanks to improved data analysis techniques and a new operating mode, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now 10 ...

Nearby star much older than thought

Dec 11, 2012 (UPI)

The star Vega, used as a "yardstick" to gage other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be much older than previously thought, U.S. astronomers say. Re...

Galaxy-wide echoes from the past

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

Many galaxies have a giant black hole at their centre that causes the gas around it to glow. However, in the case of green bean galaxies, the entire galaxy is g...

Secrets of universe revealed thanks to AF research complex

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

Looking skyward, scientists worldwide now know the universe's size, composition, approximate age and rate of expansion, thanks in part to "essential" data deriv...

Wide Binary Stars: Long-Distance Stellar Relationships

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

Using computer simulations, scientists from Hawaii and Finland have figured out how wide binary stars-two stars that orbit each other at a distance up to a ligh...

The Bubble Nebula, observed with the new One Degree Imager Camera

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

Just in time for the holidays, a spectacular image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) demonstrates the potential of the new camera known as the One Degree Imager, ...

X-ray vision can reveal the moment of birth of violent supernovae

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

A team of astronomers led by the University of Leicester has uncovered new evidence that suggests that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness ne...

Crowdsourcing the cosmos: Astronomers welcome all to identify star clusters in Andromeda galaxy

Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers are inviting the public to search Hubble Space Telescope images of the Andromeda galaxy to help identify star clusters and increase understanding of...

New galaxy census highlights importance of starbursts

Dec 06, 2012 (ESA)

Astronomers have used ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to identify thousands of previously undetected starburst galaxies - among the most prolific stellar facto...

'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster...

When the first stars blinked on

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

As far back in time as astronomers have been able to see, the universe has had some trace of heavy elements, such as carbon and oxygen. These elements, original...

Record-Setting X-ray Jet Discovered

Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)

A jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole 12.4 billion light years from Earth has been detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is the most dista...

The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy

Nov 28, 2012 (SPX)

Deep in the heart of the spiral Milky Way galaxy, a hot vortex of matter swirls around a black hole more than a million times as massive as the sun. Many galaxi...

Planck discovers filament of hot gas linking two galaxy clusters

Nov 23, 2012 (ESA)

Scanning the sky at microwave and sub-millimetre wavelengths with Planck, astronomers have unambiguously detected a 'bridge' of hot gas connecting two galaxy cl...

Failed explosions explain most peculiar supernovae

Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)

Supercomputer simulations have revealed that a type of oddly dim, exploding star is probably a class of duds-one that could nonetheless throw new light on the m...

Born-again star foreshadows fate of Solar System

Nov 20, 2012 (ESA)

Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate...

LLNL scientists assist in building detector to search for elusive dark matter material

Nov 19, 2012 (SPX)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers are making key contributions to a physics experiment that will look for one of nature's most elusive particle...