Evidence of new stars forming in Milky Way offer insights into origin of solar system
These stellar nurseries can produce dozens or even hundreds of stars with different sizes and masses.
Jul 24, 2017, 22:49 PM ISTScientists discover distant galaxy 1,000 times brighter than Milky Way
It is the brightest of the submillimetre galaxies, a class of ultraluminous infrared galaxies, according to the researchers.
Jul 15, 2017, 16:43 PM ISTDiscovered - Smallest star ever known in Universe, and it's slightly larger than Saturn
The star, called EBLM J0555–57Ab, is slightly bigger than Saturn and is located about 600 light-years from Earth and can be seen from the Southern Hemisphere, using a large telescope.
Jul 12, 2017, 14:11 PM ISTNASA's Hubble spots a challenging cosmic target – the 'Hidden Galaxy'! (See pic)
IC 342, as the galaxy is also known, is bright and sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust.
Jul 08, 2017, 09:55 AM ISTMilky Way may be home to over 100 billion brown dwarfs, claims study
Brown dwarfs are objects intermediate in mass between stars and planets, with masses too low to sustain stable hydrogen fusion in their core, the hallmark of stars like the Sun.
Jul 06, 2017, 16:03 PM ISTMilky Way's fastest stars came from another galaxy
These stellar sprinters originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy in orbit around the Milky Way, the findings showed.
Jul 05, 2017, 12:41 PM ISTAstronomers discover huge 'dead' disk-shaped galaxy
The discovery challenges the current understanding of how massive galaxies form and evolve, researchers said.
Jun 22, 2017, 13:39 PM ISTMerging galaxy clusters cause biggest bang in the Universe
The two clusters, which are located some 2.4 billion light years away, would create a larger galaxy cluster dubbed by scientists as Abell 115.
Jun 08, 2017, 22:26 PM ISTComing soon: China gears up for the launch of its first X-ray space telescope to study Milky Way!
Compared with X-ray astronomical satellites of other countries, HXMT has larger detection area, broader energy range and wider field of view.
May 28, 2017, 15:23 PM ISTAstronomers find galaxies creating stars at furious pace
The team made this discovery by accident when investigating quasars, which are supermassive black holes that sit at the centre of enormous galaxies, accreting matter.
May 25, 2017, 20:30 PM ISTNASA's Hubble telescope captures galaxy duo by the 'Hare'
NASA has released a beautiful image of the unusual galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, found in the constellation Lepus (The Hare).
May 13, 2017, 00:51 AM ISTNASA's Hubble telescope captures massive galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away
The Hubble telescope helped show that this arc is composed of two distorted images of an ordinary spiral galaxy that just happens to lie behind the cluster.
May 06, 2017, 22:28 PM ISTNASA's Hubble Space Telescope spots bright shining lizard star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of a galaxy named NGC 7250.
Apr 28, 2017, 23:43 PM ISTAstronomers discover one of the most ultra distant galaxies in the universe!
The first stars and galaxies condensed out of the cloud and started to emit light and ionising radiation.
Apr 11, 2017, 22:44 PM ISTAstronomers identify record-breaking brown dwarf located 750 light years away
The object, known as SDSS J0104+1535, is a member of the so-called halo - the outermost reaches - of our galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars.
Mar 25, 2017, 13:26 PM ISTHubble captures scintillating view of massive galaxy 400 million light years away
The galaxy UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral, according to NASA.
Mar 04, 2017, 12:58 PM ISTNASA discovers seven Earth-like planets orbiting around a single star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made a stunning discovery on the first known system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting around a single star in our galaxy.
Feb 23, 2017, 00:30 AM ISTAstronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma jets
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the researchers found that powerful radio jets from the black hole - which normally suppress star formation - are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas.
Feb 15, 2017, 14:36 PM ISTIn a first, rare galaxy with two outer rings spotted about 359 million light-years away
The galaxy, which has two outer rings surrounding a red core and named PGC 1000714 appears to belong to a class of rarely observed, Hoag-type galaxies.
Jan 04, 2017, 13:52 PM ISTIs the universe dying? Galaxy energy levels less than half compared to two billion years ago!
The Universe will decline from here on in, sliding gently into old age.
Dec 03, 2016, 21:35 PM IST