Judging from the latest Hubble image released today, some galaxies are a lot like schoolyard bullies. I mean, there are more than a hundred billion galaxies in our observable universe, and most of them are fairly "social": they clump together ...
Did the Milky Way cannibalize ancient dwarf galaxies that strayed too close? By studying one primordial star in an existing dwarf galaxy, this appears to be the case.
Need some inspiration, or just a breather? Check out this video "The Poetry of Reality." It's lovely.
Your dose of space porn for today comes courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. It shows an amazing cosmic "sculpture" in NGC 346, a very bright star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The universe is the canvas. The materials ...
The US is a nation of immigrants, by and large, and now it seems as if the Milky Way galaxy has its share of immigrants, too, in the form of globular star clusters. A new paper from Australian scientists at ...
Explosions that scientists have long used to measure the universe are finally explained as merging, dying stars.
A massive dark star voraciously eating matter and dark matter until it is well over 100,000 times the mass of the sun (NASA/Ian O'Neill). Approximately 200 million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a very different place. For ...
C.S.I.: Miami went where no episode has gone before this past week: into space! Specifically, the world of commercial space tourism. Maybe you caught the preview during Sunday's Super Bowl Game. If not, here's the gist: A dead man falls ...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the amazing sounds of Saturn's rings, and how they have inspired composers to create their own "music of the spheres." Apparently the supernovae were feeling a little left out. This week brings ...
