Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 11:57
A team of astronomers have found at least one supermassive black holes almost always becomes active and luminous by accreting a large amount of material in luminous, gas-rich, merging galaxies.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 14:52
A team of astrophysicists has found evidence which strongly supports a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:30
NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, with its near-infrared vision, has uncovered a dazzling new view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 12:18
The full beauty of nearby barred spiral galaxy M83 has been unveiled in all of its glory in a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image.
Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 15:59
Scientists were pretty sure until now that they knew how the surface of a neutron star - a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core collapses into itself - can heat itself up.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 15:36
Powerful jets of gas and other raw material outward while star formation is taking place, a according to a new research.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 15:22
Fluid dynamics experts have brought forward a new theory that shows how `zombie vortices` help in star formation.
Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 12:41
An international group of astronomers has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas.
Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2013, 19:02
NGC 6559 is a cloud of gas and dust located at a distance of about 5000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer).
Last Updated: Saturday, January 12, 2013, 17:47
Astronomers, including one of Indian origin, have tried to solve the mystery of the curiously dense cloud.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 13:18
Cosmic GDP crashes! Astronomers have discovered that the rate of formation of new stars in the Universe has drastically reduced to only 1/30th of its peak and that this decline is set to continue.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 16, 2012, 12:59
With the help of world-class observatories, astronomers have discovered an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe that is breaking several important cosmic records.
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