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Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home
Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient 'relic galaxy' in our own cosmic backyard.
March 12, 2018 Read more
15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars
A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star.
March 12, 2018 Read more
NASA's Webb Telescope to make a splash in search for interstellar water
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into molecular clouds to gain new insights into the origin and evolution of water and other key building blocks for habitable planets.
March 9, 2018 Read more
Unveiling the depths of Jupiter's winds
Three papers answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet?
March 8, 2018 Read more
A new kind of star
Together with gravity, the polarization of the quantum vacuum may allow stars to exist in unconventional configurations.
March 8, 2018 Read more
A peculiar galactic clash
Galaxies are not static islands of stars -- they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this spectacular Hubble image of Arp 256, galaxies can collide in a crash of cosmic proportions.
March 8, 2018 Read more
ALMA reveals inner web of stellar nursery
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments in the Orion Nebula. These features appear red-hot and fiery in this dramatic picture, but in reality are so cold that astronomers must use telescopes like ALMA to observe them.
March 8, 2018 Read more
First look at Jupiter's poles show strange geometric arrays of storms
With NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have gotten a good look at the top and bottom of the planet for the first time. What they found astounded them: bizarre geometric arrangements of storms, each arrayed around one cyclone over the north and south poles - unlike any storm formation seen in the universe.
March 7, 2018 Read more
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to the formation of life's building blocks in space
Experiments reveal how a hydrocarbon called pyrene could form near stars.
March 7, 2018 Read more
Physicists lay groundwork to better understand the birth of the universe
New research extends fundamental thermodynamic theories to describe microscopic systems at high energies, like the universe at the Big Bang.
March 6, 2018 Read more
Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map
A research team of multiple institutes released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The team located the positions and lensing signals of the dark matter halos and found indications that the number of halos could be inconsistent with what the simplest cosmological model suggests.
March 2, 2018 Read more
Can strongly lensed type 1a supernovae resolve cosmology's biggest controversy?
Astrophysicists discovered how to control the 'micolensing' effects of strongly lensed Type 1a Supernovae with supercomputers. Armed with this knowledge they believe they will be able to find 1,000 strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in realtime from LSST data - that's 20 times more than previous expectations.
March 1, 2018 Read more
NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere
Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the 'fingerprints' of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away.
March 1, 2018 Read more
Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe
Within 180 million years of the Big Bang, stars were born.
February 28, 2018 Read more
Black holes from small galaxies might emit gamma rays
Researchers have discovered seven galaxies that could shake up what astrophysicists thought they knew about how the size of a galaxy - and the black hole at its center - can affect its behavior.
February 28, 2018 Read more
Pulsar watchers close In on galaxy merger history
For the past twelve years, a group of astronomers have been watching the sky carefully, timing pulses of radio waves being emitted by rapidly spinning stars called pulsars, first discovered 50 years ago.
February 28, 2018 Read more
Stars around the milky way: Cosmic space invaders or victims of galactic eviction?
An international team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.
February 26, 2018 Read more
New research reveals clearest infrared image yet of the center of our galaxy
A new study reveals a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
February 26, 2018 Read more