Friday, August 8, 2014

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


White dwarfs crashing into neutron stars explain loneliest supernovae

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:58 PM PDT

Astronomers and astrophysicists have found that some of the Universe's loneliest supernovae are likely created by the collisions of white dwarf stars into neutron stars.

Astronomers find stream of gas, 2.6 million light years long

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:50 AM PDT

Astronomers and students have found a bridge of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light years long between galaxies 500 million light years away. The stream of atomic hydrogen gas is the largest known, a million light years longer than a gas tail found in the Virgo Cluster by another Arecibo project a few years ago.

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