ALMA Views a Key Stage in the Birth of Giant Planets
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have made the first direct observations of the streams of gas that flow across a gap in the disc of…
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A Unique View of a Solar Eclipse
By combining images from the SOHO satellite and Proba-2 satellite with ground-based images, scientists created this uniquely detailed view of a recent solar eclipse. The…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 1097
This new Hubble image shows the star-forming ring that surrounds spiral galaxy NGC 1097, a galaxy that is located 45 million light-years away from Earth…
Super-Tiger Helps Explore Cosmic Rays
It has been roughly 100 years since cosmic rays first became an object of curiosity to the science world, but now scientists are finally close…
UW-Madison Researchers Help Explain the Scarcity of Anti-Matter
The Daya Bay Neutrino experiment, recognized by Science magazine as a runner-up for the breakthrough of the year, is helping physicists explain why the universe…
Scientists Challenge Pulsar ‘Glitch’ Theory
Using a mathematical model, in conjunction with data from radio telescopes and recent results from nuclear physics theory, researchers at the University of Southampton challenge…
HiCIAO Helps Reveal the Structure of Protoplanetary Disks
By masking the bright light from a central star, HiCIAO can detect the detailed features of a star’s disk and the objects that it contains,…
Masers as Evolutionary Indicators for Star Formation
SAO astronomers provide the first unambiguous evidence that Class I masers may be excited by both young (hot core) and older (UC H II) MYSOs…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy IC 2233
This new image from Hubble shows spiral galaxy IC 2233, which is one of the flattest galaxies known and is located about 40 million light-years…
Tau Ceti May Host a Habitable Planet
By combining more than six-thousand observations from three different instruments and using new data modeling techniques, an international team of astronomers greatly improved the sensitivity…
Sutter’s Mill Meteorite Is Fastest on Record
The Sutter’s Mill meteorite was seen by many eyewitnesses over the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range in California. A new, detailed study has traced…
Hubble Data Reveals That Globular Clusters Age at Different Rates
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars…
New Cassini Image of Saturn and Its Rings
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has delivered new backlit image of the Saturn and its rings. Just in time for the holidays, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in orbit…
Zeta Ophiuchi, 80,000 Times Brighter Than the Sun and Traveling at 54,000 MPH
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of Zeta Ophiuchi, a star that is traveling at 54,000 mph and is about six times hotter, eight…
Survey Reveals “Ultramassive” Black Holes Weighing 40 billion Times the Mass of the Sun
A new survey of 18 giant black holes shows that the biggest black holes may be even bigger than previously thought, with several weighing between…
Hubble Views Planetary Nebula NGC 5189
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 5189, which is located several thousand light-years away in the southern…
Crab Nebula Contains Enough Dust to Make Around 40,000 Earths
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a team of astronomers discovered filaments of dust shining in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, providing definitive evidence…
X-Rays From LCLS Help Explain Cosmic Phenomena
An international team of scientists used X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source to study and dissected a process in multi-million-degree space plasmas that produces…
