Astronomy

NASA Announces Black Holes Found to be “Green”“Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, April 24, to announce a fundamental discovery […]

“Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:06:38 -0400 From: Peter Goddard Subject: Sad NewsTo the Institute Community,It is with regret that I share the sad news of the passing yesterday evening […]

Small, Rocky Planet Discovered Circling Another Star, SpaceRef“Researchers speaking today at the National Science Foundation announced the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet yet found – one that resembles our […]

Evidence for a co-moving sub-stellar companion of GQ Lup, arXiv.org e-Print archive“We present a companion of the \le 2 Myr young classical T Tauri star GQ Lup in the Lupus […]

Distant Object Could Hold Secrets to Earth’s Past, Washington Post“All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun in a circle. Not Sedna. All the planets orbit in the […]

2 December 2004: A Resolved Debris Disk around the G2V star HD 107146“We present resolved scattered-light images of the debris disk around HD 107146, a G2 star 28.5 pc from […]

9 September 2004: Dying star creates sculpture of gas and dust, STScI“The Cat’s Eye Nebula is seen here in this detailed view from the Hubble Space Telescope. A planetary nebula […]

31 August 2004:Scientists Discover First of a New Class of Extrasolar Planets, NASA “Astronomers announced today the first discovery of a new class of planets beyond our solar system about […]