A worldwide team of astronomers has solved the case of the missing quasar gas clouds, and the answer is blowin’ in the wind. Astronomers Nurten Filiz Ak and Niel Brandt from Pennsylvania State ...

The case of the missing quasar gas clouds has been solved by a worldwide team of astronomers, and the answer is blowin’ in the wind. Astronomers Nurten Filiz Ak and Niel Brandt of the Pennsylvania ...

This map of the sky from the SDSS-III image shows the view toward the northern hemisphere of our galaxy. Visible in the map are the clusters and walls of galaxies that are the largest structures in ...

The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen “first light.” The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), a part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), ...

Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help the investigation of the mysterious “dark matter” and “dark energy” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Nov 21, 2017, 06:07am EST Nov 22, 2017, 04:03pm EST This ...

Now available to the public: spectroscopic data from over 500,000 galaxies up to 7 billion light years away, over 100,000 quasars up to 11.5 billion light years away, and many thousands of other ...

SEATTLE, Wash. (Jan. 8, 2019) -- Want to learn everything there is to know about a subject? Go to the library. Want to learn everything there is to know about stars? Go to the stellar library. Renbin ...

The absorption line system is also atypical. The lines are unresolved in the SDSS spectra, and are almost certainly due to neutral or low-ionization gas in the line of sight rather than stars in the ...

PITTSBURGH—The origin of an important type of exploding stars—Type Ia supernovae—have been discovered, thanks to a research team at the University of Pittsburgh.Studying supernovae of this type helps ...

Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) released the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and it’s free to all. The image has been put together over the past decade from ...