Scientists reconstruct evolutionary history of Milky Way galaxy

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:49

A team of researchers have found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to a new level of detail.

Newly discovered galaxy puzzles astronomers

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 18:18

Researchers are puzzled over their new discovery of Himiko, which is an enormous galaxy, with a hot glowing gaseous halo extending over 55,000 light-years.

New celestial object blurs line between planets and brown dwarfs

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 15:06

A new celestial object, located nearly 500 light years away from the Sun, has challenged traditional understandings about how planets and stars form.

`Super-Earths` have Earth-like climate, life next?

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:27

Super-Earths or massive terrestrial planets dotting our galaxy the Milky Way, may haveEmore earth-like climate then scientists have ever thought.

Earth`s `gaseous twin` discovered 200 light years away

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 12:20

Scientists have come across a new planet, considered Earth`s `twin`, in another solar system that is located 200 light years away.

How binary stars are formed

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10:39

Scientists, using the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars, which has now provided strong support for one of the competing explanations for how double-star systems form.

Ambitious assessment of galaxy formation simulations launched

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 11:47

A team of many astrophysicists have launched an ambitious new multiyear project - named AGORA (Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy) - to understand and resolve inconsistencies among different galaxy formation simulations.

Tycho`s supernova remnant lights up to Mach 1,000 shock wave

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 20:47

Astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward at Mach 1,000 (1,000 times the speed of sound) is heating the remnant of Tycho`s supernova and causing it to emit X-ray light.

Gamma-ray burst breaks record for biggest cosmic explosion

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 12:16

Cosmic explosion caused by the death of a star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world after it occurred in April.

Unusual new type of black-hole quasar discovered

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 18:40

A research team has discovered a surprising new class of quasars- a super-bright disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole- in distant galaxies that even the most current theories had not predicted.

INAT 2013 IUCAA - NCRA Admission Test

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 22:35

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) - National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Admission Test - INAT 2013.

What causes violent birth of neutron stars?

Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 14:21

Researchers conducted the most expensive and most elaborate computer simulations so far to study the formation of neutron stars at the center of collapsing stars with unprecedented accuracy.