Space

LBG-2377 Galaxy Proto-Cluster Found 11.4 Billion Light Years From Earth

UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth – the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are so distant that the universe was in its infancy whe ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2008 - 3:24pm

Holmberg IX Reveals A One Of A Kind Star System- And Then Astronomers Find Another

Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind- and then its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one much closer to home. They discovered the first star system 13 million light years away, tucked inside Holmberg I ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2008 - 2:25pm

Black Hole XTE J1650-500 Is The Size Of A City But 4X The Mass Of Our Sun

Using a new technique, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest known black hole. With a mass only about 3.8 times greater than our Sun and a diameter of only 15 miles, the black hole lies very close to the minimum size predicted for black holes th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2008 - 4:17pm

Discovery- Source Of Slow Solar Wind

An international team of scientists, led by Prof Louise Harra, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, have found a source of the stream of particles that make up the slow solar wind using data from Hinode and SOHO. The solar wind can ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2008 - 2:05am

HL Tau Observation Yields Baby Planet Around 1600 Years Old

Scottish astronomers have found a baby planet still in the stages of forming and encased within a 'womb' of gas. The embryonic planet, thought to be the youngest ever seen, was discovered by Dr Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews and col ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2008 - 1:12pm

Magnetic Fountains On The Sun

The Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere, with huge fountains of hot gas erupting in the atmosphere, or corona, every few minutes, travelling at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour and reaching great heights. A team of scientists using the Hinode spacecr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2008 - 10:53am

Magnetic Substorms In Space

There are many interactions between the Sun and the Earth but one of the most dynamic events is a ‘substorm’- an explosive reshaping of the Earth’s outer magnetic field. To better understand substorms, scientists in Europe and North America are studying th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2008 - 11:28am

Solar Explosions Get Much Hotter When They Stay Focused

Using data from the Hinode and RHESSI solar observatories, astronomers have discovered that solar flares- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun- get much hotter when they stay "focused." Dr Ryan Milligan of Oak Ridge Association of Universities ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2008 - 12:08pm

Broad Absorption Line Quasar Puts Out More X-Rays Than Even Believed Possible

A rare type of galax with a higher number of X-rays than thought possible has been detected. Quasars are cosmic 'engines' that pump energy into their surroundings- theorists speculate that an enormous black hole drives each one. As matter falls i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2011 - 10:05am

GJ 436c: Possible Terrestrial-Type Planet Found In Constellation Leo

Scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation Leo. The new planet lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth and has a mass five times that of our planet but is the smallest found to date. One f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2008 - 11:25am