Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays. Their research, published in the Journal Nature on November 4th, was carried out using the High ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Stars always evolve in the universe in large groups, known as clusters. Astronomers distinguish these formations by their age and size. The question of how star clusters are created from interstellar gas clouds and why they then develop in different ways has now been answered by researchers at the Argelander ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
A bizarre galaxy thought to have started forming stars billions of years after its peers is not such a late bloomer after all, new Hubble observations reveal. Nonetheless, its primordial composition – resembling the first galaxies in the universe – remains a mystery.
In 2004, observations by the Hubble Space Telescope's ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Astronomers have found the most Sun-like star yet, and they say it is an ideal place to hunt for alien civilisations.
The star, called HIP 56948, lies a little more than 200 light years from Earth. Its size, mass, temperature, and chemical makeup are all so similar to the Sun's that ...
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