Hubble Telescope Views Shrapnel from the Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal in great detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about…
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal in great detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about…
This newly released ESO image shows the rose-colored star-forming region Messier 17. This new image of the star-forming region Messier 17 was captured by the…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has archived it second major milestone, approval of Critical Decision 2 (CD–2) authorizing the project’s scientific scope, schedule, and funding…
New research from the National Institutes of Natural Sciences shows that a previously unconsidered photochemical mechanism by titanium (IV) oxide (titania) can produce abiotic oxygen…
Astronomers believe that radio waves coming from supersonic stars will help them find stars that no one has seen before. The center of our Milky…
This newly released Cassini image shows Prometheus and Pandora hidden in Saturn’s rings. Prometheus (53 miles or 86 kilometers across) and Pandora (50 miles or…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
Released in 2009 to commemorate the Hubble’s 19th year in space, this image of Arp 194 shows several galaxies, along with a “cosmic fountain” of…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 3521, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away. This new image of the spiral galaxy…
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have extrapolated the character of the current galaxies in the Local Group back to the cosmic Epoch of…
The latest images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show breathtaking views of Pluto’s majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and haunting low-lying hazes, and…
Using ultraviolet data from GALEX and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal new details about merging black holes. Entangled by gravity and destined to merge,…
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab have created a new statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools: sky surveys. The…
This new image from the Wide Field Imager camera on the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, which…
For the first time in more than 30 years, on September 27 you’ll be able to witness a supermoon in combination with a lunar…
NASA’s Cassini Mission reveals a global ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Researchers found the magnitude of the moon’s very slight wobble,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of Earth and the moon as they crossed the sun. Just before the moon entered the shot, Earth blocked…
New research form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that shocks in a distant gamma-ray burst originated in a supernova. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)–flashes of high-energy…