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No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered

GARCHING, GERMANY (Feb. 18, 2010) – After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO’s...

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Formation of Stars in Young Clusters

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Oct. 12, 2009) – Most stars form in clusters. Recent studies of nearby star forming regions find that about three-quarters of their young stars are...

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NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material

NASA-JPL (Sep. 24, 2009) – Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around....

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TITLE	Author	DATE	RATING
Astronomers See Historical Supernova From a New Angle	CFA	4/2/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Is Our Universe at Home Within a Larger Universe?	Indiana Univ.	3/29/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered	ESO	2/19/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means	NRAO	2/3/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record	ESO	1/28/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Newborn Black Holes May Add Power to Many Exploding Stars	NASA	1/27/10	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Suzaku Catches Retreat of a Black Hole's Disk	NASA GSFC	12/10/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
A Star 200 Times as Massive as the Sun Goes Supernova	Weizman Inst.	12/4/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar	NASA GSFC	12/1/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Black hole zapping a galaxy into existence	ESO	11/30/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons	Univ. Colorado	11/25/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star	U. C. Berkeley	11/6/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Formation of Stars in Young Clusters	CFA	10/12/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material	JPL	9/24/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes	Univ. Florida	9/16/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Massive Stars Near the Galactic Center	CFA	9/12/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Trifid Nebula: A Star Factory	ESO	8/26/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Researchers propose new way to reproduce a black hole	Dartmouth College	8/22/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems	ESO	8/21/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5
Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount	JPL	8/20/09	1 2 3 4 5 Average: 0/5