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NASA's Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that the growth of galaxies containing supermassive black holes can be slowed down by a phenomeno...

Galactic 'rain' could be key to star formation

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

Some of the galaxies in our universe are veritable star nurseries. For example, our own Milky Way produces, on average, at least one new star every year. Others...

UGR scientists provide new data on the nature of dark matter

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

Recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Granada can contribute to determine the nature of dark matter, one of the most important mysterie...

ALMA and VLT Probe Surprisingly Dusty and Evolved Galaxy

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

A team of astronomers who set out to observe one of the youngest and most remote galaxies ever found have been surprised to discover a far more evolved system t...

An Old-Looking Galaxy in a Young Universe

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

One of the most distant galaxies ever observed has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalizing ev...

Astronomers Find Dust in the Early Universe

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe -- both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning and the earl...

Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center

Mar 02, 2015 (JPL)

Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy....

The Strange Case of the Missing Dwarf

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

The new SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to search for a brown dwarf expected to be orbiting the unusual double star V471 Tauri. SP...

The Cosmic Chemistry That Gave Rise to Water

Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)

Earth's water has a mysterious past stretching back to the primordial clouds of gas that birthed the Sun and other stars. By using telescopes and computer simul...

Does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geologic upheavals

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our Galaxy's disc ma...

The strange case of the missing dwarf

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Some pairs of stars consist of two normal stars with slightly different masses. When the star of slightly higher mass ages and expands to become a red giant, ma...

Stars akin to the sun also explode when they die

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

The birth of planetary nebulae, resulting from the death of low and intermediate mass stars, is usually thought of as a slow process, in contrast with the inten...

Dark matter guides growth of supermassive black holes

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and the heftier the galaxy, the bigger its black hole. But why are the two related? After all, the black ho...

Why do starburst galaxies 'burst'?

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars at a dizzying pace - up to 1,000 times faster than typical spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. To help understan...

Close Encounters of a Scholz Kind

Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)

group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed t...

Mismatched twin stars spotted in the delivery room

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

The majority of stars in our galaxy come in pairs. In particular, the most massive stars usually have a companion. These fraternal twins tend to be somewhat equ...

Exploded Star Blooms Like a Cosmic Flower

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

Because the debris fields of exploded stars, known as supernova remnants, are very hot, energetic, and glow brightly in X-ray light, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observ...

Birth of a star quartet

Feb 12, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of astrophysicists has witnessed a unique event: for the first time, researchers have discovered the formation of a quadruple star system ...

VLA finds unexpected 'storm' at galaxy's core

Feb 12, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) found surprisingly energetic activity in what they otherwise considered a "boring" ga...

In a first, astronomers catch a multiple star system in the process of forming

Feb 12, 2015 (SPX)

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation. This finding suppor...