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Herschel Space Observatory study reveals galaxy-packed filamentMontreal, Canada (SPX) May 21, 2012 A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest galaxy superclusters in the universe. The filament is the first structure of its kind spied in a critical era of cosmic buildup when colossal collections of galaxies called superclusters began to take shape. The glowing ... read more |
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 SpaceX blasts off to space station in historic first Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes Beidou navigation system installed on more Chinese fishing boats Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier's Edge Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars Glitch mars opening of world's tallest tower Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind Gilat's Spacenet Introduces Connect Series of Managed Network Services NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for NASA's Next Mission to Mars Proba-2 catches solar eclipse Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit | .. |
 A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. This discover ... more | .. |
 How Nature Shapes the Birth of Stars Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth enviro ... more | .. |
 Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Cygnus-X i ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper In England it is known as the "Plough," in Germany the "Great Cart," and in Malaysia the "Seven Ploughs." Since humanity first turned its eyes skyward, the seven northern hemisphere stars that compo ... more |
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 How massive stars sculpt a cosmic crib ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has captured a new, stunning image of Cygnus X, one of the richest star-forming regions in our cosmic neighbourhood. The image reveals in unprecedented detail the in ... more | .. |
 New Molecules and Star Formation in the Milky Way SOFIA, the "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", completed its first series of science flights, using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT). The scientific ... more | .. |
 The Heliosphere Bow Shock Does Not Exist New results from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reveal that the bow shock, widely accepted by researchers to precede the heliosphere as it plows through tenuous gas and dust from the g ... more | .. |
 IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge Of the Solar System Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2012 For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun - known as the heliosphere - move ... more |
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 Oslo-experiment may explain massive star explosions Ground-breaking research in nuclear physics at the University of Oslo may help astrophysicists understand how the heavier elements in our universe were made. The Big Bang only produced the lightest ... more | .. |
 VISTA views a vast ball of stars Globular clusters are held together in a tight spherical shape by gravity. In Messier 55, the stars certainly do keep close company: approximately one hundred thousand stars are packed within a sphe ... more | .. |
 Science Nugget: Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between t ... more | .. |
 First light: NIST researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"-in some sense they travel faster than the speed ... more |
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 Homing in on supernova origins Type Ia supernovae are important stellar phenomena, used to measure the expansion of the universe. But astronomers know embarrassingly little about the stars they come from and how the explosions ha ... more | .. |
 One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They're bright enough to see across large d ... more | .. |
 Rogue Stars Ejected from the Galaxy are Found in Intergalactic Space It's very difficult to knock a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the main mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes involves t ... more | .. |
 Subaru Telescope Discovers the Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Jun Toshikawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and ... more |
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 Subaru-Led Team Discovers a Rare Stellar Disk of Quartz Dust A research team of Japanese astronomers led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara (Subaru Telescope) has discovered a main-sequence star that is surrounded by a rare disk of quartz dust. Collisions of planetesima ... more | .. |
 Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than ... more | .. |
 Sifting through dust near Orion's Belt Dust may sound boring and uninteresting - the surface grime that hides the beauty of an object. But this new image of Messier 78 and surroundings, which reveals the submillimetre-wavelength radiatio ... more | .. |
 NMSU's Apache Point Observatory team observes record 103,000 spectra in March When the sun goes down, researchers and staff at New Mexico State University's Apache Point Observatory go into high gear, mapping the universe one pinpoint at a time for the Sloan Digital Sky Surve ... more |
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 'Faster-ticking clock' indicates early solar system may have evolved faster than we think Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from th ... more | .. |
 A Cluster Within A Cluster The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favor ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Find Possible Secret of the Origin of Brown Dwarfs The origin of brown dwarfs is one of the great unsolved mysteries facing astrophysicists today. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western's Shantanu Basu (at left) and Universit ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries from the Dark Side of a Galaxy One of the world's most powerful cameras, SCUBA-2 is producing its first detailed images of our neighbouring galaxies, revealing previously undetected vast pockets of star formation where the next g ... more |
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