All Stories by Ron Cowen
- Space
Hubble goes deep and wide for new view of galaxies
A newly released multiwavelength image portrays 12 billion years of cosmic history, depicting the assembly of galaxies in unprecedented detail.
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Charles Bolden on moon landings
Ron Cowen reports from the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C.
- Space
Kepler space telescope finds its first extrasolar planets
The NASA mission uncovers one Neptune-like and four Jupiter-like bodies.
- Space
New-found galaxies may be farthest back in time and space yet
Potential finding uses data that push limits of current technology.
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On the Fringe
Astronomers look to the Kuiper belt for clues to the solar system’s history.
- Space
Stay tuned: New star coming in 1 million years
Radio observations of a dark, dusty cloud in a nearby star-forming region have revealed one of the earliest phases of star formation and may reveal new insights on starbirth.
- Space
Herschel Space Observatory sees stars being born
A recently launched infrared observatory has discovered about 700 newly forming stars.
- Space
Experiment detects particles of dark matter, maybe
Events in underground experiment too few for certainty, but match the signature of WIMPs.
- Space
Heat-seeking WISE spacecraft to scan the skies
The new instrument promises to discover millions of infrared-bright galaxies and thousands of previously unknown asteroids and brown dwarfs.
- Space
Star outweighed any known in Milky Way
A nearby supernova was a big blast, challenging theories of how massive stars live and die.
- Space
World’s biggest atom smasher sets first record
After a year’s delay, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, became the world’s highest energy particle accelerator on November 30, revving up each of its twin proton beams to energies of 1.18 trillion electron volts.
- Space
Revving up particles in the cosmos
Newly recorded gamma rays from a microquasar may reveal how the black holes or neutron stars powering them can accelerate particles to enormous energies.
