Is it a massive opal? A huge holiday ornament? A multicolored stargate? No, it's the leftover cloud of hot gas and dust created by a star that ended...
Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 These columns that resemble stalagmites protruding from the floor of a cavern columns are in fact cool interstellar hydrogen...
hAN EXCESS of high-energy particles hitting Earth may be shrapnel from a stellar explosion 800 light years away. In the 1930s, it was suggested that...
Tunguska Mystery Solved Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Researchers from Cornell University have confirmed that the mysterious Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet. In 1908...
The Crab Supernova Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed...
Premature Supernovae Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Researchers at the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have come to a conclusion as to why some Type Ia...
