NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped...
Friday, 31 October 2014
"Unexpected Planet" Discovered by Yale Astronomers
A new planet, called PH3c, located 2,300 light years from Earth and has an atmosphere loaded with hydrogen and helium has been discovered...
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Kepler Mission Findings Reveal Planetary Systems Vastly Different from Earths
A team of planetary scientsts have compared their findings to data gathered from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and have concluded...
"Down Under" Physicists Propose a Radical Parallel Universes Theory
Australian physicists are challenging the foundations of quantum science with a new, and of course, unfalsifiable, theory based on the existence...
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
"Hot" Quote of the Day: The Search for Advanced Intelligent Life
Looking for radio signals (at least those used for communication) makes about as much sense as looking for evidence of telegraph poles on...
"A Cosmic Wheel Within a Wheel" --Binary Star Planet Lifeline Discovered
"Almost half the Sun-like stars were born in binary systems," says Emmanuel Di Folco with the Observatoire de Paris. "This means that we...
"A Vast Place of Stellar Life" --An Infrared Probe of Ringed Galaxy NGC 1291
This ringed galaxy is actually a vast place of stellar life. Though galaxy NGC 1291 shown in this newly released image from NASA's Spitzer...
Are Quasars at the Farthest Reaches of the Universe Dying?
Aeons ago, the universe was different: mergers of galaxies were common and gigantic black holes with masses equivalent to billions of times...
Image of the Day: "At the Edge of the Cosmic Ocean" --Human Tracks on Mars
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic...
The Planck Spacecraft: An Epic New Picture of Our Invisible, Dark Universe
The Planck satellite was launched in May 2009. With the highest accuracy to date, it measures the remnants of the radiation that filled the...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
"The Galaxy with No Central Black Hole" --Hubble Space Telescope Discovery (Today's Most Popular)
In the fall of 2012, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained a remarkable new view of a monster elliptical galaxy,...
Supermassive Black Holes in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters Reveal Clues to Absence of Star Creation
Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe, held together by gravity. These behemoths contain hundreds or thousands of individual...
Monday, 27 October 2014
Sun Observed Erupting with Extreme X-Class Flares
A large active region on the sun erupted with another X-class flare on Oct. 27, 2014 -- its fourth since Oct. 24. The flare peaked at 10:47...
"New Star" Observed Morphing Into a Cosmic H-Bomb
On Aug. 14, 2013, the Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered a "new" star that was subsequently named Nova Delphinus 2013....
Image of the Day: Extreme Elliptical Galaxy --"Twice as Many Stars as the Milky Way"
A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient gathering of ancient stars theorized to develop from the inside out, with a compact...
Search for Pulsars Emitting Energy Beams of 10 Million Suns Heats Up
Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns. The find,...
Saturday, 25 October 2014
"Unlocking the Secrets of Our Origins" --A SciFi VIDEO from the European Space Agency
Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and...
"Titan's Alien Ice Cloud Similar to Those Above Earth's Poles" --NASA (Weekend Feature)
"The idea that methane clouds could form this high on Titan is completely new," said Carrie Anderson, a Cassini participating scientist at...
"The Ring of Fire" --X-Ray Footage of Thursday's Solar Eclipse (VIDEO)
The moon passed between the Earth and the sun on Thursday, Oct. 23. While avid stargazers in North America looked up to watch the spectacle,...
Friday, 24 October 2014
China Launches its 1st Space Mission to the Moon and Back
China launched its first space mission to the moon and back early Friday, authorities said, the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious...
Strange Triple Asteroid System Observed
“Combined observations from small and large telescopes provide a unique opportunity to understand the nature of this complex and enigmatic...
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Early Earth: "Life Could Have Reseeded the Surface Multiple Times During Bombardment by Comets and Asteroids"
No-one knows when life first established a firm foothold on Earth. Ask around in the scientific community, though, and you’ll probably hear...
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