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This image shows an artist's conception of the bubble around our solar system moving through the interstellar medium, the matter that fills the local region of our galaxy. New observations from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn suggest the shape resembles something like a slippery ball moving through smoke, (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPLCassini data help redraw shape of solar system

— 16 Oct 2009 13:45 | Astronomy

Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing... — full story

IBEX satellite finds ribbon-like structure at edge of heliosphere

— 16 Oct 2009 09:00 | Astronomy

The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud... — full story

Researchers show component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds

— 3 Sep 2009 14:54 | Astronomy

Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds,... — full story

Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind

— 29 Aug 2009 08:32 | Astronomy

The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space... — full story

Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: Largest map of cold dust revealed

— 1 Jul 2009 18:03 | Astronomy

This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light (between infrared light... — full story

Philipp Heck examines data from the Chicago Centre for Cosmochemistry's time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The screen displays false-colour ion (charged particle) impacts of a silicon carbide grain from the Murchison meteorite for a study in progress. The grain is a presolar grain, one that existed before the formation of the solar system, (c) Dan DryMeteorite grains divulge Earth's cosmic roots

— 16 Jun 2009 01:57 | Astronomy

The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral... — full story

The fan-like nebulosity is clearly visible in this image from the ESO 3.6-m telescope. The powerful jets emitted by the X-ray binary (which itself is too faint to see in this image) crash into the interstellar medium. Because this X-ray binary is moving quickly through space, it has a fast proper motion and drags these 'impact points' along with it. This leaves two long 'trails' behind: the two stripes of emission seen running diagonally across the image, (c) K. Wiersema, ESO, University of LeicesterX-ray astronomers find 'garden hose' jet trail nebula

— 22 Apr 2009 15:39 | Astronomy

Using the NASA Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite, a team of astronomers have discovered an object predicted, but never seen before - a 'jet trail' nebula. Team leader Dr... — full story

Primitive dust samples provide pre-solar time capsules

— 21 Apr 2009 13:18 | Astronomy

An international team of scientists has found some of the most primitive matter containing abundant interstellar material analysed to date amongst dust particles collected from the... — full story

The IRAM 30 m Telescope at Pico Veleta in southern Spain. Observations with this telescope at millimetre wavelengths led to the detection of both molecules, ethyl formate (C2H5OCHO) and n-propyl cyanide (C3H7CN), (c) IRAMTwo highly complex organic molecules detected in space

— 21 Apr 2009 11:48 | Astronomy

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two of the most... — full story

Does prebiotic material exist in space?

— 26 Mar 2009 13:56 | Astronomy

Both a Spanish and a French astrophysicist have identified a band in the infrared range that serves to track the presence of organic material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in the interstellar... — full story

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