• Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • December 18th, 2014
How Supermassive Black Holes Birth Red and Dead Galaxies

How Supermassive Black Holes Birth Red and Dead Galaxies

Study finds high-energy jets originating from supermassive black holes can toy with galaxies' star-forming fuel

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • October 16th, 2014
The Milky Way Is a Cosmic Bully, Strips Neighbors of Star-Forming Gas

The Milky Way Is a Cosmic Bully, Strips Neighbors of Star-Forming Gas

Astronomers find small galaxies in the proximity of the Milky Way are all out of star-forming hydrogen gas

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 31st, 2012
Distant Galaxy Experiences Massive Supernova Explosion

Distant Galaxy Experiences Massive Supernova Explosion

The light released by the blast helps us better understand the galaxy

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • June 8th, 2012
Spitzer Detects Earliest Glows in the Universe

Spitzer Detects Earliest Glows in the Universe

The faint radiation was emitted by the first stars

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 13th, 2012
Musket Ball Cluster Reveals Matter-Dark Matter Interactions

Musket Ball Cluster Reveals Matter-Dark Matter Interactions

Astronomers are close to figuring out how galactic clusters work

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 15th, 2012
Galaxies Change Their Eating Habits as They Grow

Galaxies Change Their Eating Habits as They Grow

Teenage galaxies prefer to grow by consuming gas flows

Invisible Galaxies Orbit the Milky Way

Invisible Galaxies Orbit the Milky Way

Scientists are only now beginning to discover evidence pointing at this conclusion

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 13th, 2012
Mysterious Haze of Microwaves Found in the Milky Way

Mysterious Haze of Microwaves Found in the Milky Way

Islands of cold hydrogen gas were also found scattered about

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 27th, 2012
How Galaxies Got Their Magnetic Fields

How Galaxies Got Their Magnetic Fields

Astrophysicists have been trying to figure this out for a long time

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 20th, 2012
Lyman Alpha Emission Analyses Reveal Water-Ice in Lunar Craters

Lyman Alpha Emission Analyses Reveal Water-Ice in Lunar Craters

This is an indirect viewing method, but the only one possible

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 14th, 2011
Gas Walls Seen 'Sloshing' in Galaxy Cluster

Gas Walls Seen 'Sloshing' in Galaxy Cluster

The distant object has a very rich history of cosmic collisions

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 18th, 2011
Milky Way Reveals Gas 'Stashes'

Milky Way Reveals Gas 'Stashes'

Investigators have been looking for it for several years

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 18th, 2011
Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recycling Machines

Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recycling Machines

This allows them to put together new generations of stars

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 11th, 2011
NASA Shows Earliest Stars Were Smaller Than Suggested

NASA Shows Earliest Stars Were Smaller Than Suggested

Astronomers believed the early Universe was inhabited by behemoths

Smith's Cloud Is Heading Towards the Milky Way

Smith's Cloud Is Heading Towards the Milky Way

The structure will spur one final stage of stellar formation

New Light Shone on Molecular Cloud Cepheus B

New Light Shone on Molecular Cloud Cepheus B

Two NASA telescopes contributed to this new image

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 26th, 2011
Hydrogen Density Determines Stellar Formation Rates

Hydrogen Density Determines Stellar Formation Rates

The process takes place inside large stellar nurseries

 
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