• 夜空最大的彩色照片发布

    11-01-12 Astronomers have released the largest-ever colour image of the whole sky, stitched from seven million images, each made of 125 million pixels. 天文学家最近发布史上最大的整个天空的彩色照片,这张照片由700万张照片拼接而成,每张照片有1.25亿个像素。 Succ...

  • 疑惑:矮星系附近存在超级黑洞

    11-01-10 The surprising discovery of a supermassive black hole in a small nearby galaxy has given astronomers a tantalizing(撩人的,挑逗性的) look at how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history of the Universe. Finding a black hole a m...

  • 星际尘埃与气体如何演变成星系

    10-11-23 Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of(缺乏) stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable(不可缺少的) ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primor...

  • 天文学家在银河系外首次发现行星

    10-11-19 Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet with a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter has been discov...

  • 水瓶座两个星系正在发生碰撞

    10-11-11 Peace is the curious name given to a pair of interacting and merging galaxies that lie around 220 million light-years away in the constellation(星座,荟萃) of Aquarius. It is also known as NGC 7252 and Arp 226 and is just bright enough to be seen...

  • 银河系发现新式巨大的星体结构

    10-11-10 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way -- a finding likened in terms of scale to the discovery of a new continent on Earth. The feature, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be the...

  • 银河系正在逐渐增大

    10-10-14 The first galaxies formed before the Universe was less than one billion years old and were much smaller than the giant systems including the Milky Way that we see today. So somehow the average galaxy size has increased as the Universe has evolved. G...

  • 天文学家发现银河系古恒星的来源

    10-07-01 Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants(残留) of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic(银河的) collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University. Scientists at Durham's Institute f...

  • 天文学家发现银河系气体云来源之线索

    10-05-28 A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance(充足的,大量的) in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which play an important part in galaxy...

  • 超重黑洞可能使星系中心发生位移

    10-05-26 A team of astronomy researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, Florida Institute of Technology and University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, find that the supermassive black hole ( SMBH超重黑洞 ) at the center of the most massive local gala...