Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 08:28:59 am
The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, is one of the most easily recognisable and best-studied celestial objects. It is a huge complex of gas and dust where massive stars are forming and is the closest such region to the Earth
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 04:19:08 pm
The 1,200-year-old tomb of a ruler of the pre-Incan Sican culture has been found in Peru’s Lambayaque region, an official said.”It’s an individual seated on a litter, a funerary bundle, in which has been found in situ a crown, a mask and a series of objec
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 09:21:53 am
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawaii (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:38:48 pm
A group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has discovered, for the first time, a delta Scuti pulsating star that hosts a hot giant transiting planet
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:33:29 pm
The formation is on overdrive. and is located about 12 million light years from Earth. It is the nearest place to us where the conditions are similar to those when the Universe was much younger with lots of stars forming.
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 08:48:21 am
Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 08:45:49 am
Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, continue to chip away at the mysterious existence of water on the moon -- this time by discovering the origin of lunar water
Posted on January 10, 2011 at 09:35:37 pm
Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with a propensity for fireworks -- gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic particles ever traced to a specific astronomical object
Posted on January 10, 2011 at 12:12:43 am
The surprising discovery of a supermassive black hole in a small nearby galaxy has given astronomers a tantalizing look at how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history of the Universe
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 09:52:18 am
Most galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, harbor super-massive black holes varying in mass from about one million to about 10 billion times the size of our sun
