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Herschel survey confirms that only the most powerful black holes in the early Universe were able to quench the formation of stars in their host galaxies.
Published: 10 May 2012
The first instrument to be completed for the James Webb Space Telescope, MIRI, was handed over by the European consortium that built it to ESA at a ceremony held in London today, and will now be delivered to NASA aiming for launch in 2018.
Published: 9 May 2012
Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula.
Published: 17 April 2012
The chance discovery with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory, in 2004, of highly energetic X-rays emanating from a young neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, provided scientists with a challenge: to explain how these objects, also known as magnetars, produce such energetic non-thermal radiation. A new, comprehensive study of one...
Published: 12 April 2012
New Herschel images reveal the debris disc around the star Fomalhaut in its full glory. By probing the glow of dust in the disc, these data suggest that it consists of 'fluffy' aggregates of dust grains produced by cometary collisions.
Published: 11 April 2012
An agreement was signed by ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for cooperation on Astro-H, an important mission that will provide a unique opportunity to investigate the structure of the Universe and its evolution.
Published: 10 April 2012
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, discerning over 250 000 individual stars shining in this globular star cluster, which is located close to the centre of our Galaxy.
Published: 16 March 2012
Published: 14 March 2012
Sub-millimetre observations of 2M1207, a brown dwarf with its own circumstellar disc and a planetary companion five times more massive than Jupiter, reopen the debate on how giant planets form around stellar and sub-stellar objects.
Published: 13 March 2012
Astronomers have discovered that black-hole driven ultra-fast outflows are common in active galaxies, and they are massive and powerful enough to provide the feedback required by galactic evolution models.
Published: 27 February 2012
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth.
Published: 21 February 2012
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a mid-sized black hole called HLX-1.
Published: 15 February 2012
The scientific community is invited to participate in the Euclid mission by responding to the present Announcement of Opportunity (AO). This AO solicits proposals for the appointment of the second Independent Legacy Scientist in the Euclid Science Team. The deadline for submission of proposals is 12 April 2012, 12:00 CET.
Published: 15 February 2012
An unambiguous detection of the Galactic Haze and the first all-sky map of carbon monoxide, two important sources of foreground in the microwave sky, are among the highlights presented by the Planck Collaboration this week.
Published: 13 February 2012
Hubble has imaged the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home.
Published: 3 February 2012
Astronomers have resolved, for the first time, the Vela pulsar wind nebula in the hard X-ray band and have exploited a special imaging technique to reveal a never-before-seen component of the source.
Published: 25 January 2012
The High Frequency Instrument on ESA's Planck mission has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang. The sensor ran out of coolant on Saturday as expected, ending its ability to detect this faint energy.
Published: 16 January 2012
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early Universe.
Published: 10 January 2012
INTEGRAL data reveal the individual processes contributing to the diffuse hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission produced by cosmic ray electrons in the Milky Way.
Published: 21 December 2011
Astronomers have used XMM-Newton and other telescopes to uncover an unusually slow X-ray pulsar still nestled in the remains of the supernova that created it.
Published: 20 December 2011
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