The Outbursts of Fornax
The galaxy Fornax A, at a distance of about 74 million light-years, is one of the nearest and brightest galaxies with giant radio lobes. These huge radio lobes -- they span a million lig...
Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug of War
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Pan-STARRS Discovers Its First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
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The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-Octob...
Destroyer of Worlds
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Astronomers, in addition to discovering extrasolar planets (about 500 of them currently have known orbital parameters), have detected excess, warm infrared dust emission around many stars...
It Is Within Our Grasp
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(The following article was written by Alvin Powell, Harvard University Gazette.)
With a bit of luck and a new space telescope, within five years we could know the answer to a question tha...
Where do Supernovae Come From?
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Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, are among the most momentous events in the cosmos because they disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were produced insid...
CfA Will Play Major Role in Mission to "Touch" the Sun
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When NASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) launches before the end of the decade, it will carry a suite of cutting-edge scientific instruments. Only one – the Solar Wind Electrons ...
NASA's Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects
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Beyond the orbit of Neptune reside countless icy rocks known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). One of the biggest, Pluto, is classified as a dwarf planet. The region also ...
Making Massive Stars
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Massive stars -- those with more than about eight times the mass of the sun -- are arguably the most important actors in the universe. Much hotter and more luminous than the sun, they liv...
Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europ...