Jan 20, 2014
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led the study,...
Aug 21, 2013
Astronomers using ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon monoxide molecules in an object called Herbig-Haro 46/47 they have...
Jun 26, 2013
Astronomers have discovered three planets that have the potential to harbour Earth-like life – and they are relatively close to our planet. These so-called super-Earths are within the Gliese 667C solar system. New observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from...
