Astronomy News

A new type of supernova a ' the explosive death of a star a ' has been discovered in which helium detonates on the surface of a white dwarf star.

This is a composite of false color images of the galaxies found at the early epoch around 800 million years after the Big Bang.

A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St.

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star.

The image at right is Hubble's close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy's core, the bright whitish region at far right.

The environmental education program at Lake James State Park is offering an astronomy program on Saturday evening November 7, 2009.

Prominent astronomer and astro-historian Dr. E.C. Krupp has urged film fans not to panic after watching John Cusack 's upcoming disaster movie 2012 because there's no way the end of the world will come so soon.

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

New evidence from Chandra suggests that the neutron star at the center of the Cas A supernova remnant has an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere.

Anthony Bragalia continues his research in to the Socorro UFO incident in 1964 which now seems more like a prank than a genuine encounter thanks to material clues and physical evidence found at the site.

This morning, Benedict XVI received participants in the conference sponsored by the Specola Vaticana for the International Year of Astronomy accompanied by Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate of Vatican City.

Astronomers in Chile and Japan have for the first time seen part of the "cosmic web" of galaxies that permeates the known universe in a gigantic assembly some seven billion light-years from Earth.

NASA's Kepler mission is unlikely to detect any Earth-like exoplanets before 2011 due to an electronic glitch Kepler, NASA's mission to search for planets around other stars, will not be able to spot an Earth-sized planet until 2011, according to the mission's team.

Following the launch of ESA's SMOS satellite on 2 November, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument's three antenna arms have deployed as planned, and that the instrument is in good health.

Dr. Eric Klumpe will discuss a oe400 Years after Galileo: How Our View of the Universe Changeda during the Friday, Nov.

Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, represent a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects detected both by Fermi and ground-based observatories.

"Matter is not distributed uniformly in the Universe," says Masayuki Tanaka from ESO, who led the new study.

Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters It can see to the edge of the observable universe.

The QUaD collaboration uses the 2.6-meter telescope shown here to view the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background, a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe.