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Stars
A new picture shows the "stellar fireworks" of a collision of stars: with beautiful suns flung off in all directions and streaming colors of gas. Astronomers have captured images of a crash…
The three-body arrangement is researchers’ best chance yet to learn a violation of a key idea in Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity: the strong equivalence principle, which says that that…
This 1.5 Billion pixel image is the largest and sharpest photograph ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy. In order to observe all of the 1.5 billion pixels, you’d need 600 HD TV screens to observe the …
In what appears to be a revolutionary cosmic observation, astronomers have reportedly detected a signal from the first stars of the universe. According to reports, the discovery has given researchers…
Space weather emitted by Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our stars (Sun), may make that system rather inhospitable to life after all. Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimete…
So, you think you know the Milky Way? Well you don't. This new Milky Way map from NASA displays the exo-planets we've discovered so far, counting the newly confirmed exoplanet 13,000 light ye…
Scientists Discover “Earth 2.0″ Via Kepler Space Telescope. Since it’s launch on March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has been busy collecting data about our galaxy with an interest in finding h…
An extraordinarily powerful "hypernova" a whopping 10.5 billion light-years from Earth is the most distant star explosion ever observed, a new study reports. The Big Bang occurred about 13.…
If the sun suddenly blinked out of existence, you would have nothing to worry about — for the first eight minutes, anyway. After that, all hell would likely break loose. Still, it wouldn't be the…
Victor Buso is a locksmith. He spends his days fiddling with locks and keys, and in his spare time he stares into the heavens in the observatory he built on the top floor of his own home. He’s devote…
The surface of the red giant star Π¹ Gruis from PIONIER on the VLT. Credit: ESO "This is the first time that we have such a giant star that is unambiguously imaged with that level of details,&qu…
Image: The Orion Nebula shines in this VLT Survey Telescope image. ESO/G. Beccari A group of astronomers has just made an unexpected discovery within the constellation of Orion. “Checking out the da…
A team of astronomers is making a bold prediction: In 2022, give or take a year, a pair of stars will merge and explode, becoming one of the brightest objects in the sky for a short period. It’s noto…
A new model on how stars are formed has added weight to the hypothesis that most – if not all – stars are born in a litter with at least one sibling. Our own star at the center of the Solar System is…
We know that our universe has already lived through great number of exciting phases. But new research released overnight shows the universe has long passed its peak and is slowly but surely dying. T…
From galaxies that are 13 billion years old to changing colors of Jupiter’s great spot, we will take a look at seven objects in space that we just can’t explain. (Image: This enhanced image of SN1993…
