Supernova Explosions and Black Hole Jets Scatter a Galaxy’s Star-Making Gas
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy’s star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The…
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BBC “Stargazing” Viewer Discovers an Exoplanet
Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life. Volunteers can go to the Planethunters website to…
Read the article →World’s Largest Radio Telescope Begins Observations
RadioAstron, effectively the largest radio telescope ever built, is up and running. The telescope’s main component, a 10-metre radio dish aboard the spacecraft Spectr-R, launched in…
Read the article →Fermi Lab Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar
An international team of scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects…
Read the article →Planet With Two Suns Discovered by Kepler
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s…
Read the article →Unveiling the Universe With the Herschel Space Telescope
Over 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, ESA’s Herschel space telescope has been observing the Universe for the last two years, studying the infrared radiation emitted by…
Read the article →Thunderstorms Create Anti-Matter Jets
Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter…
Read the article →Kepler Space Telecope Discovers Five Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond…
Read the article →NASA Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
With NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies published in…
Read the article →Flaring Gamma Ray Star
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from…
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