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ESO’s VLT Captures Pillars of Creation in 3D

This visualization of the 3D structure of the Pillars of Creation is based on new observations of the object using VLT’s MUSE instrument. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.
Apr 30, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have created a 3D map of the iconic Pillars of Creation. This image shows the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from...

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An ocean eddy (bottom of the image) as seen from space. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory.

Scientists Find ‘Dead Zones’ in Atlantic Ocean

Apr 30, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers led by Dr Johannes Karstensen of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany has discovered unexpectedly low...

Artist’s concept of Yi qi. Image credit: Dinostar.

Yi qi: Bat-Winged Dinosaur Discovered in China

Apr 30, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, has discovered...

An artist’s concept of Pluto. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Spacecraft Sees Possible Polar Cap on Pluto

Apr 30, 2015 by News Staff

The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured some spectacular new images of Pluto, revealing bright and...

A hydrothermal vent at Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc, New Zealand. Image credit: NOAA.

Hydrothermal Vents Able to Create Simple Organic Molecules, Study Says

Apr 29, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study in the journal Chemical Communications, alkaline hydrothermal vents on the seabed are able to produce simple carbon-based molecules,...

Liolaemus scorialis, male, 7 km NW of the summit of the Antuco Volcano, near the Laja Lagoon, Biobio Region, Chile. Image credit: Troncoso-Palacios J et al.

Two New Species of Iguanid Lizards Discovered in Chile

Apr 29, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of researchers led by Dr Jaime Troncoso-Palacios of the Universidad de Chile in Santiago has described two new species of iguanid lizards from...

Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues have gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the Sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. Image credit: NASA / SDO.

NASA’s EUNIS Detects Evidence Supporting Coronal Heating Theory

Apr 29, 2015 by News Staff

Strong new evidence supports a theory that the Sun’s corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares. Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...

Composed of gas and dust, this molecular cloud resides in a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Carina. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble SM4 ERO Team.

Water Vapor Could Have Been Abundant in Early Universe, Scientists Say

Apr 29, 2015 by News Staff

Water vapor could have been just as abundant in cosmic molecular clouds a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, says a group of researchers...

The planetary system HD 7924. Image credit: Karen Teramura / Benjamin Fulton / UH IfA.

Two New Super-Earth Exoplanets Discovered around Nearby Star HD 7924

Apr 29, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using three ground-based telescopes in the United States has discovered two super-Earths around a nearby star known as HD 7924. The...

MASCS/MDIS color mosaics of Mercury. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington.

NASA Scientists Release Colorful Images of Mercury

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

Stunning new images of Mercury have been produced by combining data from the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, so named because of their extremely low humidity and lack of snow and ice cover. Photosynthetic bacteria have been found living in the relatively moist interior of rocks. Scientists consider the Dry Valleys to be the closest of any terrestrial environment to Mars. Image credit: NASA / GSFC / METI / ERSDAC / JAROS / ASTER Science Team.

Scientists Find Evidence for Salty Groundwater beneath McMurdo Dry Valleys

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers co-led by Dr Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Dr Jill Mikucki of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...

A slice through the map of nearby galaxy superclusters; the map spans nearly 2 billion light years from side to side. Regions with many galaxies are shown in white or red, whereas regions with fewer galaxies are dark blue. Image credit: University of Waterloo, adapted by Sci-News.com.

Scientists Create 3D Map of Nearby Galaxy Superclusters

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Canada and France has produced a three-dimensional density map of galaxies that spans approximately 2 billion light-years. A...

Images of SN 2012ap and its host galaxy, NGC 1729. Image credit: D. Milisavljevic et al.

SN 2012ap: Astronomers Find ‘Missing Link’ in Supernova Family Tree

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

Supernova SN 2012ap is a ‘missing link’ between stellar explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts and those that don’t, says a group of astronomers...

Chilesaurus diegosuarezi was up to 3 meters long; the different parts of its body were adapted to a particular diet and way of life, which was similar to other groups of dinosaurs. Image credit: Gabriel Lio.

Chilesaurus diegosuarezi: New Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered in Chile

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists led by Dr Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires has described a new...

This image shows the star-forming galaxy UGC 5797. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Luca Limatola.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Image of Star-Forming Galaxy UGC 5797

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have acquired an image of a distant galaxy called UGC 5797. This image shows the star-forming galaxy...

This image shows a nano-lasing device consisting of gold nanoparticle arrays and a microfluidic channel fabricated by sandwiching a 250 μm-thick silicone sheet with a 5-mm-wide and 15-mm-long slit in the center between the gold nanoparticle substrate and a glass microscope slide. Image credit: Ankun Yang et al.

Researchers Create First Liquid Nanoscale Laser

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from Northwestern University and Duke University has found a way to manufacture a liquid nanoscopic laser whose emission properties...

The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). Image credit: Kintaiyo / CC BY 3.0.

Parasite-Infected Bumblebees Use Nectar Nicotine as Self-Medication, Say Scientists

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

Bumblebees that have been infected by parasites seek out flowers with nicotine in the nectar, says a group of scientists from Royal Holloway University...

A radio image highlighting the shock wave - seen here as the bright arc running from bottom left to top right - in the cluster CIZA J2242.8+5310. The shock wave was generated 1 billion years ago, when the two original clusters collided, and is moving at a very high speed of 9 million km per hour. Scale bar – 1 million light-years. Image credit: Andra Stroe.

Cluster Merger-Driven Shock Fronts Can Resurrect ‘Red and Dead’ Galaxies

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

‘Red and dead’ galaxies that stopped forming stars in the distant past can sometimes come back to life, find two studies published in the journal Monthly...

This image shows the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star HL Tauri. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO.

Embryonic Planets Found around Young Star HL Tauri

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of astronomers led by Dr Daniel Tamayo of the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Centre for Planetary Science and the Canadian...

The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). Image credit: Simon Koopmann / CC BY-SA 2.0 DE.

Scientists Sequence Genomes of Two Bumblebee Species

Apr 24, 2015 by News Staff

Genetic researchers have sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of two key bumblebee species – the European buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)...

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