<p></p> <p>The intricate jumble depicted in this image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory shows the distribution of gas and dust in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, a giant stellar nursery about 450
<p></p> <p>New maps from ESA’s Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought.</p> <p>The history
<p></p> <p>Since 2012, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three ‘tsunami waves’ in interstellar space. The most recent, which reached the spacecraft earlier this year, is still propagating outward according
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Once every 50 years, more or less, a massive star explodes somewhere in the Milky Way. The resulting blast is terrifyingly powerful, pumping out more energy in a
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Scifi movies are sometimes criticized when explosions in the void make noise. As the old saying goes, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” Without air there
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p> <br /> Nestled within the shell around this large bubble is an embryonic star that is already a hefty eight times more massive than our Sun.</p> <p>This image, by ESA’s
<p>Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar
AAVSO Alert Notice 456<br /> Monitoring of V854 Cen Requested<br /> April 4, 2012 <p>Dr. Bram Ochsendorf (Leiden Observatory, Belgium) has requested monitoring by AAVSO observers of the R CrB variable V854 Cen