Galaxy News Feed from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries, inventions and developments in Galaxy research http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3753/NASA-Telescope-Finds-Elusive-Buckyballs-in-Space-for-First-Time/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:51:35 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3753 Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3741/Hyperfast-Star-Was-Booted-From-Milky-Way/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:29:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3741 A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misst http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3701/Meet-the-Titans:-Dust-Disk-Found-Around-Massive-Star/ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:36:09 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3701 A new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets coul http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3685/Black-Hole-Blows-Big-Bubble/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:25:48 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3685 Combining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of j http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3628/R-Coronae-Australis:-A-Cosmic-Watercolor/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:08:47 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3628 The star R Coronae Australis lies in one of the nearest and most spectacular star-forming regions. This portrait was taken by the Wide Field Imager (W http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3627/Planck-unveils-the-Universe---now-and-then/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:57:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3627 ESA's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us ho http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3565/ESA-To-Set-Tiny-Hair-Like-Webb-Telescope-Microshutters/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:05:16 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3565 Tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair are a key component in the James Webb Space Telescope's ability to see huge distances in th http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3465/Astronomers-Discover-Star-Studded-Galaxy-Tail/ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:56:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3465 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 341 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3457/Jumbo-Jellyfish-or-Massive-Star?/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:51:07 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3457 Some might see a blood-red jellyfish in a forest of seaweed, while others might see a big, red eye or a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3418/NASA-Releases-Kepler-Data-on-Potential-Extrasolar-Planets/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:54:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3418 NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes a http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3414/VISTA-Views-the-Sculptor-Galaxy/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:51:34 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3414 A spectacular new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) has been taken with the ESO VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile as part of on http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3368/Zooming-In-on-an-Infant-Solar-System-/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:38:21 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3368 A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in na http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3242/Backwards-Black-Holes-Might-Make-Bigger-Jets/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:32:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3242 Going against the grain may turn out to be a powerful move for black holes. New research suggests supermassive black holes that spin backwards might p http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3233/A-Cosmic-Zoo-in-the-Large-Magellanic-Cloud/ Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:09:06 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3233 Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way, in their quest to under http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3197/Astronomers-Discover-Clue-to-Origin-of-Milky-Way-Gas-Clouds/ Sat, 29 May 2010 05:52:33 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3197 A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3172/Astronomers-Discover-New-Star-Forming-Regions/ Fri, 28 May 2010 04:59:12 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3172 Astronomers studying the Milky Way have discovered a large number of previously unknown regions where massive stars are being formed. Their discovery, http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3151/NASA'S-Swift-Survey-Finds-'Smoking-Gun'-Of-Black-Hole-Activation-/ Thu, 27 May 2010 04:15:53 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3151 Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery about why a small percentage of black holes http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3141/Grown-up-galaxy-shows-Universe-of-extremes/ Wed, 26 May 2010 06:21:49 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3141 A galaxy spotted 10 billion light years away, when the Universe was only about one-quarter of its current age, has deepened the puzzle over how 'fully http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3136/Hubble-Research-Reveals-'Wandering'-Black-Hole/ Tue, 25 May 2010 20:08:14 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3136 A team of scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology, Florida Institute of Technology and the University of Sussex has discovered that the supe http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3099/Two-Peas-in-an-Irregular-Pod:-How-Binary-Stars-May-Form/ Mon, 24 May 2010 04:01:43 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3099 Our sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. The sibling stars circle around each other at varying distances,