ALMA Views a Newborn Star Enshrouded in Dust
This newly released ALMA image shows a newborn star enshrouded in dust. This intriguing image may look like a collection of colored blobs, but it…
This newly released ALMA image shows a newborn star enshrouded in dust. This intriguing image may look like a collection of colored blobs, but it…
On April 29th NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface. Mission specialists…
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s shadow as seen by the Cassini Spacecraft. The projection of Saturn’s shadow on the rings grows shorter…
This Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image shows a well-preserved landslide scarp and rocky deposit off the edge of a streamlined mesa in Simud Valles, a giant…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
By combining data from several telescopes, astronomers created this captivating new image of the Crab Nebula. The unusual image was produced by combining data from…
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…
Using observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, a team of astronomers reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost…
An international group of astrophysicists try to find out how strong the “gravitational noise” from the Milky Way is. It is widely known that our…
Using the separate universe simulations technique, researchers reveal some of the most precise measurements of the local bias – confirming the known trend that more…
A new multi-wavelength image of the Crab Nebula contains data from Chandra, VLA, Spitzer, Hubble, and XMM-Newton. The Crab supernova was observed in 1054 AD…
In a newly published study, astronomers describe the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system as being in something called a “resonant chain,” which strongly stabilizes the…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows feathery methane clouds drifting across Saturn’s moon Titan. The Cassini Spacecraft captured the image on May…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views the colorful impact ejecta from the collision that created Hargraves Crater. The impact ejecta is a rich mix of rock…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, a team of astronomers reveals that in the late stages of galaxy mergers, so much gas and dust falls toward a…
This NASA image of the day comes from the Cassini Spacecraft and shows Saturn’s hexagonal polar jet stream. Saturn’s hexagonal polar jet stream is the…
A newly published study details how astronomers developed a model that simulates the evolution of coronal mass ejections. Our ever-changing sun continuously shoots solar material…
NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment captured this new image of seasonal flows on the surface of Mars. Recurring slope lineae are seasonal flows on…