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Infant Universe had massive ‘star factory’ galaxy churning out 3,000 stars per year
Light captured from when the Universe was still in its childhood has shown a massive galaxy that churned out nearly 3,000 stars per year, a rate 2,000 greater than our own Milky Way today, astronomers said on Wednesday. The galaxy, called HFLS3, has a mass of stars nearly 40 billion…
Scientists record most powerful quasar blast ever
US astronomers have detected the most powerful blast from a quasar ever recorded, offering the first proof of important theories about why the universe is shaped the way it is. The beam of energy, detected by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, based in Chile, was at least five…
Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star
Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a young star similar to the Sun. “This is the first time sugar been found in space around such a star,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO),…
Astronomers spot first evidence of dark galaxies
SANTIAGO — Astronomers in Chile using a powerful telescope have observed what appears to be evidence of the existence of dark galaxies, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced Wednesday. Dark galaxies are small, gas-rich galaxies from the early universe that are believed to be the building blocks of today’s bright,…
Scientists can’t seem to find mysterious dark matter
Astronomers scanning the Milky Way said on Wednesday they were baffled when they failed to spot something invisible. To explain: the team were looking for evidence of dark matter, the substance that is believed to comprise 83 percent of matter in the Universe. But it cannot be detected by the…
Largest virtual telescope operational in Chile
SANTIAGO — Astronomers in Chile said this week they had created the world’s largest virtual optical telescope by using a special technique to combine images from the four most powerful devices as if they were a single device. “This weekend we managed to finish the process (of merging the images)…
Fourth potentially habitable planet is discovered
WASHINGTON — International astronomers said on Thursday they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life about 22 light-years from Earth. The team analyzed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star known as GJ 667C, which is…
Astronomers discover more than 50 new planets
PARIS — Astronomers on Tuesday unveiled a haul of more than 50 planets orbiting other stars, including a “super-Earth” which inhabits a zone where, providing conditions are right, water could exist in liquid form. It is the biggest single tally in the history of exoplanet hunting since the very first…
World’s largest radio telescope gears up in Chile
SANTIAGO — The world’s largest network of radio telescopes is ready to begin the first phase of operations in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, an observatory announced Thursday. The ALMA complex, under construction for over a decade, received on Wednesday the 16th of 66 total antennas, enough to “begin its first…
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