14-01-13 This new Hubble image is the best-ever view of a cosmic creepy-crawly（毛骨悚然地） known as the Tarantula Nebula, a region full of star clusters, glowing gas, and dark dust. Astronomers are exploring and mapping this nebula as part of the Hubble Ta...

13-12-30 Massive stars -- those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun -- present an intriguing（有趣的） mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller? To find the answer, astronomers used the Ata...

13-11-06 NASA's Kepler space telescope, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to answer its main research question: How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets? Based on a s...

13-10-29 Lost Civilization Henry Hart Wine festered（溃烂） at the bottom of my skull. Wind blew the night's big ideas off the trees. The moon had frostbite（冻伤，冻疮） . The stars did, too. Be kind to animals was mother's mantra（咒语） . Do your duty was...

13-10-17 Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast have shed new light on the rarest and brightest exploding stars ever discovered in the universe. The research is published Oct. 17 in Nature. It proposes that the most luminous（发光的） supernovae -- explod...

13-10-10 Located about 1200 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Carina (The Ship's Keel), the Toby Jug Nebula, more formally known as IC 2220, is an example of a reflection nebula. It is a cloud of gas and dust illuminated from within by...

13-08-14 精彩对白 Dean: And it's ridiculous and all for naught . Well, thank you. I take this very seriously. It's a gift to be the best man . They say that once in your lifetime, someone comes along whom you're absolutely meant to be with. Everything feels...

13-07-19 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of stars in an ancient globular star cluster, offering proof they formed at different times and providing a rare look back into the Milky...

13-07-10 Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If e...

13-07-04 The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers, including members from the Niels Bohr Institute, have...