A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change…
Read the articleESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is…
Read the articleNASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by…
Read the articleLike photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep…
Read the articleAstronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for…
Read the articleAstronomers have discovered a veritable rogues’ gallery of odd exoplanets – from scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls. And while the hunt…
Read the articleTwo very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp…
Read the articleThis comes in courtesy of Terry Moseley at the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA): Many congratulations to Dave Grennan for discovering his second supernova – and not…
Read the articleNASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.…
Read the articleAstronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix…
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