Hubble uncovers earliest Galaxies of the Universe

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken all the previous distance limits for galaxies and uncovered a population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. These newly found galaxies pushes back the time when galaxies began to form to 500-600 million years after the Big Bang, which took place about 13.7 billion [...]

Superbright SN 2007bi Supernova is First of it’s kind

An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, detected by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first populated the Universe. The superbright supernova occurred in a nearby dwarf galaxy, a kind of galaxy that’s common but has been little studied until now, and the [...]

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope looks at Microquasars

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object — either a neutron star or a black hole — that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at more [...]

Spitzer Space Telescope discovers Youngest Brown Dwarf

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed. Spitzer’s longer-wavelength infrared camera penetrated the dusty natal cloud to observe a baby brown dwarf named SSTB213 J041757. The data, confirmed with near-infrared imaging from Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, revealed not one but two of what would potentially [...]

NASA Telescope Discovers Largest Saturn Ring

(Assams.Info) – US space agency NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn, which is by far the largest of the giant planet’s many rings. The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane. The bulk of its [...]

NASA approves X-ray Telescope Mission

(Assams.Info) – US space agency NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will be launched in August 2011. The official confirmation follows two years of detailed design and reviews that have enabled NASA to determine that the NuSTAR team is ready to build the flight hardware.
The NuSTAR mission will carry [...]

XMM-Newton Uncovers Celestial Rosetta Stone

(Assams.Info) – European Space Agency (ESA)’s XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years. These supernovae are used as beacons to measure cosmic distances and ultimately understand [...]

OCam: World’s Fastest and Most Sensitive Astronomical Camera

The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects. The first 240×240 pixel images with the world’s fastest high precision faint light camera were obtained through a collaborative effort [...]

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