Monthly Archives: March 2012

One of the most puzzling cosmic explosions was observed in early April by Nasa’s Swift telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Although research is ongoing, astronomers say that the unusual blast probably arose when a star wandered … Continue reading →

Last week, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre discovered extremely energetic photons in the gamma wavelength using the Femmi Gamma-Ray telescope. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. Dave Thompson, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Centre, said that … Continue reading →

Black holes have a fog of mystery surrounding them, and exhibit many properties that even physicists are the forefront of astronomy have difficulty explaining. But thanks to an animation by Andrew Hamilton, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, we … Continue reading →

In mid-february, scientists were analyzing data collected by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, when for the very first time, they observed buckminsterfullerene in a solid form in space. Previous to this discovery, buckminsterfullerene, microscopic spheres of carbon, were only found in a … Continue reading →

  Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are using the 100 meter long Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest steerable radio telescope in the word, to examine a list of over 1200 planets that NASA identified … Continue reading →