It's a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed the throes of stellar birth as never before in the well-studied object known as HH 46/47.
At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe – colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space.
There are supermassive black holes -- with masses up to several billion solar masses -- at the hearts of almost all galaxies in the Universe, including our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Young stars are violent objects that eject material at speeds as high as one million kilometres per hour. When this material crashes into the surrounding gas it glows, creating a Herbig-Haro object.
Astronomers have shed further light on the mysterious process of how young stars and their planetary systems form.
A completely unexpected spiral structure observed around an ancient star could offer a glimpse of what our own sun has in store.
Sugar molecules have for the first time been spotted in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star.
It’s often said that what goes on behind the scenes of a movie can be much more fascinating than the film itself.
More than sixteen thousand feet up in Chile, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is officially open and has released its first images.
Warner Bros. has confirmed a Fall release date for its F.E.A.R. 3 paranormal horror FPS.
The title - which will be playable on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PCs - is expected to feature both single-player and co-op modes.