Hubble Space Telescope Views Milky Way’s Big Sister
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. At first glance,…
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Ancient Blue Crystals Reveal What the Early Sun Was Like
Our Sun’s beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the Sun…
Colliding Stars Spill Radioactive Molecules In Interstellar Space
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotopologue of aluminum monofluoride (26AlF). The new data – made…
Parker Solar Probe Will Face Several-Million-Degree Fahrenheit Temperatures
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit…
Like a Huge Spiral, the Milky Way Floats in Space
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered…
Astronomers Confirm Galaxies in the Early Universe
Astronomers in the past decade have detected thousands of galaxies dating from epochs only a few billion years after the big bang. Many of them,…
NuSTAR Satellite Confirms Binary Star System Shoots Cosmic Rays
An international collaboration operating NASA’s NuSTAR satellite has revealed that two of the biggest stars in the galaxy are capable of creating cosmic rays. Their…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Probing the Distant Past
Obtained for a research programme on star formation in old and distant galaxies, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image obtained with its Wide Field Camera…
Astronomers Study Enduring ‘Radio Rebound’ from Gamma-Ray Burst 161219B
In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away lost a million-year-long fight against gravity and collapsed, triggering a…
Something Mysterious is Going on at the Sun – The Curious Case of the Hot Corona
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the…
Further Evidence That Outskirts of Spiral Galaxies Host Massive Black Holes
Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are…
Astronomers Discover Thin Gap on the Most Fundamental Map in Stellar Astronomy
A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new…
New Hubble Space Telescope Photos of Mars and Saturn
In summer 2018 the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to Earth. During this event the planets are relatively close…
Visibility Information on the July 27, 2018 Lunar Eclipse
A lunar eclipse will be visible over much of the Earth on July 27, 2018. At least part of the eclipse will be visible in…
Astronomers Conduct Successful Test of Einstein Theory Near a Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers conduct successful test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity near supermassive black hole. The massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way…
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Captures the Sounds of the Sun
Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20…
NASA Releases Statement on Possible Subsurface Martian Lake
A new paper published in Science this week suggests that liquid water may be sitting under a layer of ice at Mars’ south pole. The finding…
Scientists Create Metallic Hydrogen to Unravel the Mysteries of the Dynamo Effect
Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets—including Jupiter, Saturn, and hundreds of extrasolar planets—are composed…