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Andromeda Galaxy Pops Up Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
02.24.12 - Researchers using multiple NASA space observatories have been studying an object known as an ultraluminous X-ray source in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
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Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
02.24.12 - In 1843, Eta Carinae was the second-brightest star in the night sky. By the 20th century, it was invisible to the naked eye.
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Hubble Discovers Waterworld Planet
02.21.12 - Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
02.22.12 - Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.
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Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole
02.21.12 - Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole.
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A Black Hole and a Cannibal Galaxy
02.16.12 - This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to a mid-sized black hole that may have been stripped off of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy.
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A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing
02.17.12 - Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
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NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket
02.17.12 - Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.
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Black History Month - Profile of a Scientist
02.16.12 - February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion, we recently sat down with John Johnson, scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze
02.13.12 - New images from the Planck mission show islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.