Astonomers finger culprit in 1572 supernova
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An international team of astronomers has identified the surviving companion star to the 1572 supernova explosion witnessed by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.
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Astrophysicists find a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun.
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Summary - (Sep 24, 2004) An international team of scientists have discovered one of the most powerful events since the Big Bang: a collision between two galaxy clusters, which is smashing millions of stars into each other.
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered one of the fastest stars ever seen--a &quot;cosmic cannonball&quot; that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.
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A pair of miniscule meteorite grains has helped astronomers settle a long-running debate on the origins of space dust belched out by dying stars.
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A supernova spotted by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe more than four centuries ago that changed the course of human knowledge has just yielded a further discovery - the apparent discovery of the companion star that triggered the great event.
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a &quot;supervolcano&quot; that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout 760,000 years ago.
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By Joe BaumanThe Divine Strake nonnuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site &quot;would disperse large amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere,&quot; says a noted pathologist. Dr. Thomas M.
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On 11th November 1572 the renowned Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed a titanic supernova explosion, although at the time he was unaware of the phenomena he was seeing.
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Astronomers use the Hubble telescope to reveal the effects of unseen dark matter as it tugs on galaxies in a crowded supercluster.
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A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalog of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of ârelicâ radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects. These findings were presented on Feb.
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Robotic Telescope Measures Speed of Material Ejected in Cosmic DeathUsing a robotic telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory, astronomers have for the first time measured the velocity of the explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
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Whoever smelt it dealt it NASA is investigating the source of an unexplained pong which set off alarms aboard the International Space Station.â¦
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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Keith Felcyn, a retired senior editor of BusinessWeek magazine who lives in Greenwich, Conn., had not been able to fully extend the little and ring fingers of his left hand for 20 years. But last month, it took 20 minutes for a doctor in Ontario, Ore., to reverse his Dupuytrenâs disease, a benign but ultimately disabling disorder in which the fascia of the hand thickens and draws the fingers permanently into the palm.
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Scientists have now officially witnessed the perfect cosmic storm. Thanks to the European Space Agency&#39;s XMM-Newton observatory, they watched a nearby head-on collision between two galaxy clusters.
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A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton.