May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...

Apr 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured the first images of a dust belt orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system. Kappa...

Nov 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...

Nov 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...

Oct 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...

Oct 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

Oct 11, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...

Oct 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected magnesium-rich material in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris. This composite...

Sep 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and Japan’s Suzaku have provided evidence that our Galaxy...