Black Hole Winds Provide Clues to Early Galaxies

Startlingly powerful black hole jets are erupting in a nearby galaxy. This composite image of the spiral galaxy M83 was assembled from observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Magellan telescopes. PHOTOGRAPH BY HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM, NASA, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Dan Vergano National Geographic Published...

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Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead

Scientists discovered that black hole jets could prevent nearby gas from turning into stars. By ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands  |  Published: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: GALAXIES | HERSCHEL | BLACK HOLES Multi-wavelength view of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5044. Digitized Sky Survey/NASA Chandra/Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research/Very Large Array...

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The Submillimeter Array telescope unveils how small cosmic seeds grow into big stars

The results show that high-mass stars aren’t born alone but in groups. By Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts  |  Published: Thursday, February 27, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: STARS | STAR FORMATION | NEBULA These two panels show the Snake Nebula as photographed by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes. At mid-infrared wavelengths (the upper panel taken by Spitzer),...

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Super Earths May be a dead world

Scientists find that planets that form from less massive cores can become benign habitats for life, whereas the larger objects instead end up as “mini-Neptunes” with thick atmospheres and probably stay sterile. By Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom  |  Published: Thursday, February 27, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: EXOPLANETS | KEPLER | SUPER EARTHS The mass of the initial rocky core determines...

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Surprise: Elephants Comfort Upset Friends

Asian elephants recognize distress and offer a helping trunk, study says. Asian elephants (pictured) caress each other when stressed. PHOTOGRAPH BY ZSSD, MINDEN PICTURES/CORBIS Jennifer S. Holland for National Geographic Published February 18, 2014 The short list of animals that console stressed-out friends just got...

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2017: Transiting Exoplanet Survey (TESS)

In the Future we will see an extradionary Accomplishm in Space Travel by the launch of transiting Exoplanet Survey (TESS) and I hope we will see more the wonder of the universe!!! An array of wide-field TELESCOPES known as the transiting Exoplanet Survey (TESS) will launch in 2017 to conduct the first space-based survey of the entire sky in the search for habitable planets orbiting other stars. TESS will search for planets that pass between...

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River of hydrogen flowing through space seen with Green Bank Telescope

This faint tenuous filaments of gas streaming into nearby galaxy NGC 6946 may help explain how certain spiral galaxies keep up their steady pace of star formation. By NRAO, Charlottesville, VA  | Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: Galaxies | STAR FORMATION This composite image contains three distinct features: the bright star-filled central region of the galaxy NGC...

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Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes “spy” one of the youngest galaxies in the universe

 The Frontier Fields program is already providing new constraints on the properties of the galaxies in the early universe. By the Institute of Astrophysics in the Canary Islands  | Published: Monday, February 10, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: Galaxies | Galaxy Clusters Deep image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 Obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The zoomed image shows the region around...

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Giraffe Killing at Copenhagen Zoo Sparks Global Outrage

A healthy male giraffe was euthanized because its genes did not add to the diversity of the zoo population. Marius, a healthy male giraffe, lies dead after he was euthanized at Copenhagen Zoo on February 9, 2014. Visitors, Including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER HOVE Olesen, POLFOTO via AP   ...

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Red skies discovered on extreme brown dwarf

This object’s thick clouds are made mostly of mineral dust. By University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom  |  Published: Thursday, February 06, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR SYSTEM | BROWN DWARFS An artist’s impression of ULAS J222711-004547. This newly discovered brown dwarf is characterized by an unusually thick layer of clouds, made of mineral dust. These thick clouds...

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Extreme power of black hole revealed

The black hole has created enormous structures in the hot gas surrounding it and prevented trillions of stars from forming. By Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama  |  Published: Friday, January 24, 2014 RELATED TOPICS: BLACK HOLES The black hole is located in the center of a galaxy cluster named RX J1532.9+3021. Supersonic jets from...

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