Erica Nelson: ‘The early universe could make these galaxies, but the modern universe can’t. It was this hotter, more turbulent place — these were boiling cauldrons forging stars.’
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Posted on 11:43 pm, Wednesday, August 27, 2014.
Erica Nelson: ‘The early universe could make these galaxies, but the modern universe can’t. It was this hotter, more turbulent place — these were boiling cauldrons forging stars.’
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Posted on 5:48 pm, Wednesday, October 30, 2013.
Steven Finkelstein: ‘There are way more regions of very high star formation than we previously thought. … There must be a decent number of them if we happen to find two in the same area of the sky.’
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Posted on 9:38 pm, Sunday, August 11, 2013.
MEDIA RELEASE Star clusters with properties not seen before have been discovered by an international team of astrophysicists, led by Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Duncan Forbes. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found several star clusters with sizes and masses that were previously […]
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Posted on 12:54 am, Thursday, August 19, 2010.
Once again, this is not really Big Island-related, but it is a cool photo … Researchers do not yet know what is lighting up IRAS 05437+2502, a small, faint nebula that spans only 1/18th of a full moon toward the constellation of the Taurus. Particularly enigmatic is the bright upside-down V that defines the upper […]
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