Space

Spectro-Astrometric Imaging Finds Young Planets In Gas Discs

these three young, Sun-like stars are all very different and will most likely result in very different ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 11:11am

Mysterious New Aurora Discovered On Saturn

sometimes fills the region from around 82 degrees north all the way over the pole. This new aurora is also ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2008 - 1:24pm

WR 25 And Tr16-244: Previously Unseen Mammoth Stars Get The Hubble Treatment

in Spain, Chile, and Argentina to build a comprehensive catalogue of observations of all the massive ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2011 - 2:08am

Sagittarius A* Black Hole In Our Galaxy Gets Triangulated, Except Using 28 Stars

all other galactic nuclei, with a level of detail that will never be possible beyond our Galaxy," ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 7:00pm

Gravity Makes A Comeback In Astrophysics- And A 3D 'Dendrogram' PDF Is Showing How

Halle. "You can take all the data, selectively filter it, and look at it in a different way." ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2009 - 3:29am

Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant Gets Dynamic Visualization

known about the plumes and jets before, but did not know that they all came out in a broad, disk-like ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2009 - 10:38am

The Strange Temperature Inversion Of Pluto

than the surface.  In contrast to the Earth's atmosphere [2], most, if not all, of Pluto's ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2009 - 5:28pm

Triple Merger Of Four Galaxy Clusters Is A Special Sort Of Awesome

largest objects in the Universe go at each other in a cosmic free-for-all. Using data from NASA's ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2009 - 11:19am

EPOXI And The Hunt For Alien Oceans

planet looks blue all the time because of Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere, the same ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2009 - 1:11pm

Human Presence May Be Increasing The Lifespan Of Earth

the atmosphere that serves as food for plant to disappear.  The oceans will evaporate and all living ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2009 - 2:46pm