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Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and data obtained by the GMOS spectrograph on the Gemini South... view more (2008-04-02)

Media Invitation - 'Domes of Discovery' gears up old observatory for historic telescopes opening
A huge telescope is the centerpiece of a new exhibition called 'Domes of Discovery' at The Observatory Science Centre, Herstmonceux, Sussex. 'Domes of Discovery' tells the story of the world-famous Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) that was once based at Herstmonceux, and is housed in one of the... view more (2003-03-31)

Roses In The Southern Sky
The Wide-Field-Imager at La Silla Unveils Intricate Structures Illuminated by Hot Stars The giant HII nebula N44 The two best known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, are located in the southern sky at a distance of about 170,000 light-years. They host many giant nebular... view more (2003-11-03)

Skid Marks in the Galaxy - Astronomers localise galactic particle accelerator
Radio galaxies are amongst the most luminous celestial objects - however, they mainly emit radio waves, not light. These occur when electrically charged particles travelling at almost the speed of light are slowed down, thereby losing energy. Until recently it was not known exactly where the... view more (2002-10-16)

Brain regions do not communicate efficiently in adults with autism
A novel look at the brains of adults with autism has provided new evidence that various brain regions of people with the developmental disorder may not communicate with each other as efficiently as they do in other people.   view more (2006-10-16)

NASA prepares to boldly go
Written by Pat Dasch, Houston EVER since astronauts last set foot on the Moon in 1972, the world has been waiting for a grand vision of humanity`s next foray deep into space. Our visits have been restricted to the space stations barely 400 kilometres above the Earth`s surface and, burdened with the... view more (2002-10-24)

Toothy dinosaur newest to come out of southern Utah
The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.   view more (2007-10-04)

'Naked-eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth
Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.   view more (2008-09-12)

Astronomers use Hubble to 'weigh' Dog Star's companion
For astronomers, it's always been a source of frustration that the nearest white-dwarf star is buried in the glow of the brightest star in the nighttime sky. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion of the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis... view more (2005-12-13)

Quieter jet engines â€" and kinder to the environment
The jet airliners of the future will be significantly quieter and more environmentally friendly with the help of engineers at The University of Nottingham.   view more (2005-02-23)

Durham team discover a cosmic flow of galaxies across one billion light years of the universe
They have discovered that the distribution of dark matter is far less smooth than has been predicted by theorists, and that the Milky Way is among a flow of galaxies moving together in the direction of the constellation Vela in the southern hemisphere.   view more (1999-01-29)

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is becoming a reality and brings new hope for a number of patients who cannot currently be treated with traditional surgical techniques.   view more (2005-09-06)

BOSS: the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in New Mexico called Apache Point and devoted solely to mapping the universe.   view more (2008-09-22)

New study reveals twice as many asteroids as previously believed
Asteroids in our Solar System may be more numerous than previously thought, according to the first systematic search for these objects performed in the infrared, with ESA`s Infrared Space Observatory, ISO. The ISO Deep Asteroid Search indicates that there are between 1.1 million and 1.9 million... view more (2002-04-05)

Disks around Failed Stars - a Question of Age
First Ground-Based Mid-Infrared Observations of Brown Dwarfs [1] A team of European astronomers [2] have observed eight Brown Dwarfs, i.e., small and faint objects also known as "failed stars", with the TIMMI2 infrared sensitive instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla. From two of these,... view more (2002-08-01)

ESA's Rosetta mission: A status report
Following the decision not to launch Europe's comet chaser Rosetta in January, scientists and engineers in the programme have been examining several alternative mission scenarios. Each has been looked at on the basis of the expected scientific return, the technical risks related to using the... view more (2003-03-21)

Hinode: new insights on the origin of solar wind
Spectacular images and data from the Hinode mission have shed new light on the Sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which can disrupt power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.   view more (2007-12-10)

Adaptive optics leads the way to supermassive black holes
Astronomers have discovered the exact location and makeup of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a collision of two galaxies more than 300 million light years away.   view more (2007-05-18)

The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare
On April 25, NASA's Swift satellite picked up the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun. The flare, an explosive release of energy from a star, packed the power of thousands of solar flares. It would have been visible to the naked eye if the star had been easily observable... view more (2008-05-20)

The Structural Basis of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is Revealed
Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (FHC), the leading cause of sudden death in athletes and young people, is a genetic disorder of the heart that is characterized by an increased thickness in tissue of the left ventricle.   view more (2007-11-12)

Variable physical laws
Physical quantities such as the speed of light, the gravitational constant and the electron mass are believed to be the same independent of where and when they appear in the universe.   view more (2006-06-12)

New panorama reveals more than a thousand black holes
By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes. These results give astronomers a snapshot of a crucial period when these monster black holes are growing, and provide insight into the environments in which they occur.   view more (2007-03-13)

Eclipsing brown dwarfs provide new key to the star formation process
Pity the brown dwarf. It's too large to be a planet, but too small to be a star.   view more (2006-03-16)

'Beyond Einstein' research should begin with mission to study dark energy
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy should pursue the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) as the first mission in the "Beyond Einstein" program, according to a new report from the National Research Council.   view more (2007-09-07)

Hinode reveals new insights about the origin of solar wind
Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.   view more (2007-12-07)
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