Eclipses, Occultations and Transits

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars.  

Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo and other stars of popular and classical music honored late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti at a star-studded concert in Jordan over the weekend.  

SUNSPOT, N.M.—An observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, has received a $9 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The Apache Point Observatory will use the money to map the distribution of quasars and galaxies in space and the distribution of stars in our own galaxy.  

Winds of Baby Stars - The origin of gas emission in the innermost region around young stellar objects  

Some 2 billion to 3 billion years after the big bang, the number of new stars in the universe mushroomed. In the past, many scientists suggested that the bursts of new stars were created because smaller galaxies collided – and as they did, their gravity caused gases in each galaxy ...  

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for their work in sub-atomic physics, the prize committee said on Tuesday.  

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kraus (Bonn, Germany) used the unique capability of the VLT near-infrared...  

November is a great time to check out the night sky and all its twinkling stars. The York County Astronomical Society is offering four classes to learn about astronomy, constellations, and the solar system with observation sessions after the class, weather permitting.  

by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2008 RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth. This is a complicated region that contains young star clusters, including one that is deeply embedded in a cloud of molecular...  

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming, according to a paper to be published in a November 2008 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.  

(PhysOrg.com) -- For astronomers, understanding what happened in the early moments of the universe could answer many questions in physics and astronomy. One possible player in the early universe is cosmic strings, which arise naturally in particle physics models. However, cosmic strings are quite...  

Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday.  

Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.  

Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics.  

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: - 2008: U.S. citizen Yoichiro Nambu and Japanese researchers Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for work on "spontaneous broken symmetry" in subatomic physics. - 2007: France's Albert Fert and...