Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon These columns that resemble stalagmites protruding from the floor of a cavern columns are in fact cool interstellar hydrogen...
The outskirts of the Milky Way are not known for stellar activity, as the raw materials needed to build stars are sparse there. But Giovanni Carraro...
Light Continues 3 Years After Outburst Thursday, June 17th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years (6 kpc) from the...
Andromeda Galaxy Revealed Friday, June 11th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the...
Bully Galaxy Rules the Neighborhood Monday, June 7th, 2010 - Ehud Rattner NASA astronomers are using an image of a galaxy named ESO 306-17 to learn more about the formation of star groups, galaxies...
The Southern Pinwheel Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 - Anuradha Menon Located about 15 million light-years away towards the Hydra (the sea serpent) constellation, Messier 83 is a nearby face-on...
