Astronomers Investigate Supermassive Black Hole Radio Jet In Unprecedented Detail
In the centre of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole. An international research team led by Silke Britzen of the…
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Hubble Telescope Views An Aging Beauty – NGC 6139
Herschel Space Observatory Discovers Planetary Nebula Lasers
ESA’s XMM-Newton Reveals Missing Intergalactic Material
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Views Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
Forty Years of Discovery on Pluto’s Moon Charon
Scientists Report Discovery of Nearly 80 New Planetary Candidates
Astronomers Make Most Precise Test of Einstein’s General Relativity Outside Milky Way
‘Red Nuggets’ – Relics of the First Massive Galaxies
Once in a Blue Dune, MRO Views Lyot Crater
Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a field of classic…
Martian Dust Storm Grows, Is Now “Planet-Encircling”
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations….
Astronomers Discover the Last of Universe’s Missing Ordinary Matter
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or “baryons,”…
Astronomers Directly Image a Black Hole Ripping Apart a Star
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a…
New Evidence of the Existence of an Elusive Type of Black Hole
Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of…
Scientists Reveal the Source of a Mysterious Martian Rock Formation
Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a mysterious Martian rock formation, a new…
Astronomers Hunt Molecules in the Search for New Planets
Each exoplanet revolves around a star, like the Earth around the Sun. This is why it is generally impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet,…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Views a Dark and Stormy Jupiter
This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter’s North North Temperate Belt. NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this color-enhanced image at 10:31…
Hubble Image of the Week – One Galaxy, Three Supernovae
In astronomy, the devil is in the details — as this image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field…