15th of May 2013 09:10 GMT
Humans have been gazing at Orion for millennia, but they've never seen it as beautiful as this. Granted, we can't actually see it like the photo above would suggest, as the fiery glow is only visible to telescopes tuned to submillimeter radio frequencies. Luckily, the European Southern Observatory has jus...
29th of April 2013 12:01 GMT
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is almost a century old and, while it doesn't explain everything we've observed in nature, it's still the best thing we've got to explain gravity and its effects and not for lack of trying. The fact remains, gravity is peculiar enough that studying it ...
4th of March 2013 14:11 GMT
Astronomers today have a wide range of instruments at their disposals, all much more powerful than the ones before. But each generation of new telescopes is followed by another that trumps its performance, so astronomers always have something to look forward to, though that something always seems out of reach. A big...