Chemical Traces From Intense Starbursts Shed Light on Cosmic History
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A study of intense starbursts – events in distant galaxies in…
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Astronomers Reveal Globular Clusters 4 Billion Years Younger Than Previously Thought
New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up to 4 billion years younger than previously thought. Once thought…
Hubble Image of the Week – Threads of Blue
A ripple of bright blue threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. The foreground of this image is littered with nearby stars with…
New Horizons Reveals Dunes Made of Tiny Grains of Solid Methane on Pluto
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan and Comet 67P – and now on the dwarf planet Pluto, according to a new…
NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Asteroids
Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only knows them as moving points of light. The rare exceptions…
Hubble Views Cosmic Collision Between Spiral Galaxies
Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256 is actually the site of a violent clash. This distorted…
Juno Views Jet Stream Speeding Through Jupiter’s Atmosphere
See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The jet stream, called Jet N2, was captured…
New Model Proposes That Dark Matter Carries an Electric Charge
Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the matter in the Universe. They have studied whether a…
Chandra Reveals a Special Kind of Neutron Star for the First Time
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy, using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
Chandra Views Black Hole Bounty in the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory….
What It Looks Like When A Massive Black Hole Devours A Star
Dr. Jane Lixin Dai, theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor and Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, both from the DARK Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University…
VLT Survey Captures Sharpest Image to Date of the Tarantula Nebula
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky…
Hubble Telescope Views The Brightest Cluster Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The brightest galaxy within this…
Chemistry Lab on ExoMars Rover Will Seek Evidence of Life on Mars
An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of…
Martian Rocks May Harbor Signs of Life From 4 Billion Years Ago
Iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars could hold vital clues that show life once existed there, research suggests. These rocks – which formed…
Chandra Reveals X-Ray Binary Stars at the Galactic Center
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is about twenty-five thousand light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At the core…
Astronomers Observe Unprecedented Detail in Pulsar PSR B1957+20
A team of astronomers has performed one of the highest resolution observations in astronomical history by observing two intense regions of radiation, 20 kilometres apart,…
NASA Partnerships Key to Building a Sustainable Moon Presence
As NASA shifts human exploration back to the Moon, U.S. commercial partnerships will be a key to expediting missions and building a sustainable presence on…