- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- December 18th, 2014
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
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
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
The faint radiation was emitted by the first stars
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 13th, 2012
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
Teenage galaxies prefer to grow by consuming gas flows
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 28th, 2012
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
Islands of cold hydrogen gas were also found scattered about
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 27th, 2012
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
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
The distant object has a very rich history of cosmic collisions
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 18th, 2011
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
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
Astronomers believed the early Universe was inhabited by behemoths
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 11th, 2011
Smith's Cloud Is Heading Towards the Milky Way
The structure will spur one final stage of stellar formation
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 6th, 2011
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
The process takes place inside large stellar nurseries