All Entries Tagged With: "X-rays"

GALLERY: Black holes galore
Every blob and dot of light you can see in this picture shows where a black hole is lurking. NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory has revealed hundreds of them scattered throughout the cosmos.

Inside-out exploding star
Why did a star turn itself inside out when it blasted itself to bits?

Take a tour of the Crab Nebula
Vast supernova remnant harbours a magnetised neutron star, a pulsar, that emits ‘superflares’.

Space spin-offs – better cancer therapy
Astronomers’ research on celestial bodies may have an impact on the human body.

Neutron star bites off more than it can chew
Huge X-ray flare seen as a dense star gobbles up part of another star.

Aussie astronomers find stellar heavyweights
Australian team develops new method to hunt the Milky Way’s most monster stars.

Giant ring of black holes
Collision between galaxies has spawned a wave of black hole birth.

Birth and death in Andromeda
Spectacular new view of the Andromeda Galaxy shows stars coming and going.

Crab’s candle starts to flicker
Famous nebula’s steady nature thrown into doubt through new X-ray observations.

Blast blinds telescope
Huge X-ray blast from deep space briefly blinded NASA’s Swift observatory