Astronomy
Hubble Looks at Four Dead Stars
Planetary nebulae are some of the most beautiful objects in the Universe. Don't let the name confuse you, though, they…
AKARI Sees Star Formation on the Edge
A new image taken by the Japanese/European space telescope AKARI turned up huge regions of star formations on the outer…
Hubble Sees Ancient Galactic Building Blocks
Let's go back, way back, to an earlier time when the Universe was a fraction of its current age. Tiny…
Supernovae Blowing Superbubbles in the Small Magellanic Cloud
At a distance of only 200,000 light years, the Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic…
Google Earth… for Astronomy
All right, this is the coolest thing ever. You know Google Earth, that cool software application that lets you explore…
Closest Neutron Star Discovered
Canadian and US astronomers have located what is thought to be the closest neutron star ever seen. The exotic object,…
Dead Star Found Polluted By Earthlike Planet
Astronomers have found a burned out white dwarf star with the remants of an Earthlike planet orbiting it. This chemical…
Galaxy Cluster Collision Creates a Dark Matter Core
This strange photograph is a composite image of Abell 520, a massive cluster of galaxies in the process of colliding…
Self Organizing Space Dust Could Be a Precursor to Life
As if searching for life wasn't already difficult enough, physicists now think that clouds of particles in space could mimic…
That’s Not a Comet, that’s a Star
If you take a quick look at the photograph with this story you'd think you're looking at a comet. I've…