GigaGalaxy Zoom Project Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon The project, called GigaGalaxy Zoom, reveals three amazing, ultra-high-resolution images of the night sky that online...
Asymmetric Ashes: Type Ia Supernovae Monday, October 5th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Artist's impression of how Type Ia supernovae may look like as suggested by spectro-polarimetry observations. The outer...
Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are...
How Supergiant Stars Lose Mass Monday, September 28th, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Two teams of astronomers, one from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and one from the Paris...
The Crab Supernova Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed...
A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique...
