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Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy’s "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and revealing an amazing amount of detail, a team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar...
Research at the University of Leicester sheds new light on Ancient GreeksNew research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the...
A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for...
Image 1: This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Image 2: This image shows two young brown dwarfs,...
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 - Access to data from the ESA-NASA SOHO mission has just become easier with the launch of a new SOHO science archive with enhanced capabilities for searching and visualising the vast SOHO data...
The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has joined the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT). "The TMT is delighted to take this exciting new step forward in our relationship with the...
Using ESOs Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of a rather unusual shell ejected by a vampire star, which in November 2000...
This image shows two young brown dwarfs, objects that fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass. Unable to ignite as stars, brown dwarfs end up as cooler, less luminous objects that are...
Advertiser Staff and News Services The Hawaii Academy of Science features a Science Cafe presentation tonight on a complex astronomical computing device discovered in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck in the Aegean Sea. "The...
Malaysia Sun Sunday 22nd November, 2009 ((Op-ed) Dennis Overbye - CERN’s pronouncements were intended to allay concerns that a black hole would be spit out of its new Large Hadron Collider and eat the Earth. The doomsday buzz...
