Jul 27 2011
Monster Waves Behind Sun’s Coronal Heating Mystery?
Powerful Alfvén waves have been detected deep inside the sun's atmosphere, possibly explaining why the solar atmosphere is so hot.
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Jul 21 2011
The Beautiful Violence of Exoplanet Aurorae
If you think the auroral displays we have on Earth are impressive, spare a thought for aurorae erupting in the atmospheres of massive gas giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars.
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Jul 18 2011
Do ‘Ultracool’ Brown Dwarfs Surround Us?
Could the discovery of two neighboring brown dwarfs indicate that more of these ultracool "failed stars" are nearby?
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Jun 27 2011
Messier 105 Galaxy: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’
Who says old galaxies don't have kick left in them?
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Jun 20 2011
Spitzer Spots Protostar’s ‘Crystal Rain’
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a strange kind of greenish "crystal rain" falling onto a protostar called HOPS-68 in the constellation Orion.
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Jun 14 2011
Is the Sun About to Fizz Out?
The sun is changing, but scientists aren't sure why.
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Jun 08 2011
Epic Solar Flare Pops Sun’s Magnetic Cork
Early Tuesday, a powerful solar explosion kicked up a surprising amount of material, creating a huge veil of dark plasma that spectacularly rained back down on the solar surface.
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Jun 07 2011
Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In on M51 Supernova
Q: What do you get when you combine a supernova, Twitter and a bit of luck? A: A night in Hawai'i astronomer Alex Filippenko will never forget.
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Apr 11 2011
Bizarre Time Delay Discovered in Stellar Jets
Stellar nurseries are chock-full of energetic phenomena, it's little wonder that we are always finding new and bizarre things in star-forming regions.
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Mar 24 2011
Could Dead Stars Support Life?
White dwarfs may technically be the remnants of dead stars, but could they provide a steady, long-term energy source to alien life?
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