Recent News in Astronomy
The latest news and stories from Astronomy Magazine
- Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - This could be the start of a fantastic era of physics and discoveries after 20 years' work by the international community to build a machine and detectors of unprecedented complexity and performance.
- Cosmic slot machine matches galaxy collisions
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - Galaxy collisions could be the key to finding out why the universe contains the mix of galaxies it does.
- Neutrino experiment starts its search for the unknown
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - The T2K project will move us one step closer to understanding the role of the neutrino in the early universe.
- Spitzer telescope observes baby brown dwarf
- Monday, November 23, 2009 - Young brown dwarfs rapid evolution makes it difficult to catch them when they are first born.
- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory investigates the Sun's cycle of highs and lows
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - This is the first mission of NASA's Living With a Star program, which seeks to reveal how solar activity is generated and to understand the causes of solar variability and its impact on Earth.
- NASA provides venerable Hubble hardware to Smithsonian
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Astronauts brought back the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement after more than 15 years in space.
- Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision
- Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Telescopes on seven continents will observe 243 distant quasars.
- Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super suns
- Monday, November 16, 2009 - Massive stars form like their smaller siblings, with disk accretion and magnetic fields playing crucial roles.
- Shuttle Atlantis headed for delivery stop at International Space Station
- Monday, November 16, 2009 - Atlantis is carrying about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space.
- Astronomers discover an extrasolar planet with a highly tilted orbit
- Monday, November 16, 2009 - Retrograde or spin-orbit misaligned planets are important for understanding the diversity of planetary systems, and they provide important evidence for assessing current planetary migration models.