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Spectacular Sombrero Galaxy
Captured By Chandra/Hubble/Spitzer
It resembles a shining UFO or a wide-brimmed hat, but this isn't what it looks like.
One of most famous spiral galaxies (Messier 104) is also widely known as the "Sombrero" (the Mexican hat) because of its particular shape.
The galaxy's impressive, unusually large and extended central bulge and its lane of dark interstellar dust give the galaxy its unusual resemblance.
Invader From Another Galaxy
This alien intruder from another galaxy is in many ways different from other exoplanets observed by astronomers.
Located about 2000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation
of Fornax (the Furnace), the Jupiter-like planet orbits a dying star of extragalactic origin and risks to be engulfed by it.
Alien Species Living In The Inner Milky Way Could Be In Danger
Few people doubt there is intelligent alien life in the Milky Way galaxy, but where can we expect to find it?
Astronomers think that while the inner sector of the MIlky Way Galaxy may be the most likely to support habitable worlds.
Unfortunately some of these places are also most dangerous to all life-forms.
Black Holes With No 'Table Manners' Eat Two Courses At Once!
It is still unknown how the supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galaxy centres accrete gas and grow.
Researchers from the University of Leicester (UK) and Monash University in Australia have investigated how some black holes got so big so fast that they are billions of times heavier than the sun.
Mercury Surprises Scientists
On March 17, MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) completed its one-year primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data
that reveals new information about the planet's core, topography, and the mysterious radar bright material in the permanently shadowed areas near the poles.
Living Earth Simulator - Supercomputer Predicting The Future
In Douglas Adams book the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy we encounter a machine called Deep Thought. It is the most powerful computer ever built. Deep Thought is capable of answering questions
concerning life, the Universe, and simply everything. Now scientists are planning to create a similar machine. It is called the Living Earth Simulator (LES).
Cosmic Robbers: Black Hole Jets May Cause
Galaxy NGC 3801 To Die And Lose Its Stars
Armchair explorers of the cosmos can now have at their fingertips the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission.
Now available for free from the iTunes App Store, Kepler Explorer was developed through the OpenLab initiative at UC Santa Cruz,
which brought together faculty and students in astrophysics, art, and technology for a summer institute last year.
A Merger Of Galaxy Clusters About 5.2 Billion Light Years From Earth
A violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched apart from dark matter through a
violent collision between two galaxy clusters.
Astronomers have observed this cosmic event using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground.
Galaxy With A Voracious Appetite
Observations by the two of the European Space Agency's space observatories have provided a multi-wavelength view of
the mysterious galaxy Centaurus A.
The new images, from the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton x-ray satellite, are revealing further hints about
its cannibalistic past and energetic processes going on in its core.
New Kepler Explorer:
View The 1,790 Distant Planetary Systems - For Free!
Armchair explorers of the cosmos can now have at their fingertips the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission.
Now available for free from the iTunes App Store, Kepler Explorer was developed through the OpenLab initiative at UC Santa Cruz,
which brought together faculty and students in astrophysics, art, and technology for a summer institute last year.
Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
That Forces Scientists To Re-Evaluate Old Theory
The results led the scientists to the conclusion that this enigmatic blue compact dwarf might force astronomers
to review current galaxy formation models and much of what is known about galaxy formation and evolution might need substantial revision.
The dwarf galaxy I Zw 18 is, one of the poorest in heavy elements, located only 59 million light years away.
It's among those that have strong star forming activity.
Proof Of How The Universe Is Changing
Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the
course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the time lamented that the discovery had shattered his world view.
Bright Star In The Constellation Lyra Is Cooler Than The Human Body
The coldest class of stars have temperatures as cool as the human body.
Astronomers hunted these dark orbs, termed Y dwarfs, for more than a decade without success.
When viewed with a visible-light telescope, they are nearly impossible to see.
Thermonuclear Burning In A Neutron Star Detected For The First Time!
It's a very important discovery!
For the first time, an international team of scientists have detected all phases of thermonuclear burning in a
neutron star, located close to the center of the galaxy in the globular cluster Terzan 5.
MessageToEagle.com - Universe is still a big mystery. The bright galaxy NGC 3621 is the so-called "flat galaxy"
which appears to be just a classical spiral. But it is rather unusual astronomical object
