ssc2011-10 12.21.11 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of TimeA remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. read more |
ssc2011-09 10.24.11 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova MysteryA mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an explodin... read more |
ssc2011-08 10.19.11 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar SystemNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. read more |
ssc2011-07 06.30.11 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on GasGalaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitze... read more |
ssc2011-06 05.26.11 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant StarTiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observa... read more |
ssc2011-05 04.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Early GalaxyAstronomers have uncovered one of the earliest galaxies to appear in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.... read more |
ssc2011-04 04.04.11 NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young StarAstronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are expe... read more |
ssc2011-03 02.10.11 New View of Family Life in the North America NebulaStars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's... read more |
ssc2011-02 01.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy ClusterAstronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancie... read more |
ssc2011-01 01.12.11 Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After AllAstronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe... read more |
ssc2010-10 12.08.10 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich PlanetAstronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of... read more |
ssc2010-09 10.27.10 Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer TelescopeAstronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the... read more |
ssc2010-08 10.19.10 Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an ExoplanetObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. read more |
ssc2010-07 08.23.10 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double StarsTight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data fro... read more |
ssc2010-06 07.22.10 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First TimeAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space fo... read more |
ssc2010-05 04.21.10 'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer TelescopeNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient... read more |
ssc2010-04 03.29.10 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer ImageA new image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. The dust is... read more |
ssc2010-03 03.17.10 NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black HolesAstronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.... read more |
ssc2010-01 01.05.10 Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a CloseFor almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own ey... read more |
ssc2010-02 01.05.10 Galaxy Exposes its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer ImageNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small ga... read more |
