Space

Sorok, Hylabrook And The Mysteries Of Space Dust

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks, which likely originated from beyond our solar system, are more complex in composition ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 3:53pm

Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Material Mystery In The Milky Way

Astronomers have produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way, which could move science closer to cracking a stardust puzzle nearly a century old.  The researchers say their work demonstrates a new way of uncovering the loc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 1:23pm

Hypatia Catalog- Solar Neighborhood Is Not A Mixed Salad, It's A Layered One

The Hypatia Catalog is the largest catalog ever produced for stellar compositions and seeks to help in understanding the properties of stars, how they form, and possible connections with orbiting planets. Named after one of the first female astronomers, w ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2014 - 10:15am

NGC 3603 And NGC 3576: A Spectacular Landscape Of Star Formation

A new captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. On the left is the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20,000 light-years away in the Carina–Sagittarius spiral a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 5:00am

Mars, Saturn And The Claws Of Scorpius

Across Australia, catch Mars and Saturn around 8 pm local time.Source: Museum Victoria/Stellarium By Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 21 2014 - 2:02pm

2014J And M82 May Reveal What Causes A Type Ia Supernova

New research may help to solve the mystery of what caused a spectacular supernova in galaxy M82 11 million light years away. The supernova, a giant explosion of a star and the closest one to the Earth in decades, was discovered earlier this year and new r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2014 - 8:58am

What Lit Up The Early Universe, Numerous Faint Galaxies Or Quasars?

New simulations hope to uncover the origin of the ultraviolet light that bathes the cosmos, helping scientists understand how galaxies were built.  "Which produces more light? A country's biggest cities or its many tiny towns?" asks Dr. And ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2014 - 9:05am

Where To Search On Mars For Droplets, & Shallow Flows Of Liquid Water- Where Microbial Life May Flourish

Where should we go, on Mars, to look for droplets and streaks of present day liquid water? You may have heard of the "warm seasonal flows", and the recent "swimming pools of bacteria".  However,  there are several other promising ideas ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 26 2015 - 11:32am

Dense Galactic Core Shows Early Construction Of Giant Galaxy

Astronomers have caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction- a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate. A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 12:18am

It’s About Time: Young Galaxies Were Dense, Intense Star-Makers

There are some massive galaxies out there, and we now know a little about their early life.Credit: Lauro Roger McAllister/Flickr, CC BY By Edward Taylor, University of Melbourne A piece of the galaxy formation puzzle may have fallen into place, thanks to ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 28 2014 - 7:30am