Japan's AKARI 'scopes out stellar evolution
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Infrared sky survey The Japanese infrared space telescope AKARI has sent back a raft of stunning new images of stellar evolution, from the earliest stages of star formation to the final death throes of stars in our own galaxy.â¦
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered larger and younger than expected galaxies. The NASA craft found three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that would indicate supernovas are still exploding.
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report
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Astronomers now have a new &quot;eye&quot; for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy.
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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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This one is named Geminids because it seems to originate from the constellation Gemini. It will deliver about a dozen stars an hour.
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&quot;For the first time, we have clearly established a 'genetic difference' between stars in the disc and the bulge of our Galaxy,&quot; said Manuela Zoccali, lead author of the paper presenting the results in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics [1].
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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta.
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Latest launches put Japan back into Asia's space race
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Might yet go for obedient droid butlers, though One of the main drivers of the Japanese - and hence the world's - robotics industry is the increasingly elderly population in the land of the Rising Sun.â¦
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.
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Proof that certain double star systems can erupt in full-blown explosions and then continue to flare up with smaller bursts has been spotted by the ultraviolet eyes of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that indicate stars still are forming and supernovas still are exploding.
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Astronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.