Milky Way's Particle Accelerators Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Researchers from the Astronomical Institute at Utrecht University have been observing the Milky Way’s particle accelerators...
New photographs released by NASA have captured images of a vast stellar formation resembling a human hand reaching across space. The image, taken by...
Dustiest Binary Star System Found Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher A team of American astronomers discovered that two terrestrial planets underwent a collision only a few hundred thousand...
Working out the mass of huge black holes, like the ones hiding in the center of galactic nuclei, is no easy task and attempts are being made to find...
Swift Catches Exploding Star Monday, May 26th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner NASA's scientists recently used the Swift Satellite in order to see a star explode and become a supernova. Although over the...
Brightest Supernova Ever Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 - Iddo Genuth A hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova, the death of an extremely massive star in the galaxy NGC 1260, some...
