New Image of the Helix Nebula Unraveling Into Space
650 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, the Helix nebula is putting on a show as the star’s dusty outer layers are unraveling into…
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Twin US Spy Telescopes Could Further American Astronomy
In the cavernous area of Building 1230, located at the ITT Exelis facility in Rochester, New York, there are two 2.4-meter telescopes, each as big…
ISON Comet May Become Brightest Object in the Night Skies
The comet ISON was recently discovered and it could possibly become the brightest object in the night skies. The comet was discovered a week ago…
Asteroid Dust Could Shield Earth From Harmful Solar Radiation
Scottish scientists have proposed to use a giant space-based dust cloud, blasted off an asteroid, to shade the Earth from the sun. Deliberately manipulating the…
Titan Experiences Seasonal Changes
Astronomers have been researching Saturn’s moon Titan for roughly 30 years, discovering that the moon experiences seasonal changes that affect it more than previously thought….
Astronomers Measure a Black Hole’s “Point of No Return”
For the first time, international team of astronomers has measured a black hole’s “point of no return,” the closest distance that matter can approach before…
Mysterious Cold Layer Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus
Based on a new analysis of compiled data from ESA’s Venus Express, scientists have uncovered a very chilly layer high in Venus’s atmosphere with temperatures…
Catalog of Moon’s Craters May Reveal Ice Beyond Moon’s Poles
There might be more ice on the Moon than was previously thought. There are permanent shadows far from the lunar poles, which has expanded the…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 4183
First observed by the British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1778, and now seen in this new image from Hubble, spiral galaxy NGC 4183…
Scientists Measure the Radius of a Black Hole at the Center of M87
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of scientists has for the first time measured the radius of a black hole at the center…
Simulation Shows What Happens in the Last Stages of a Black Hole Merger
A recently published study uses computer simulations to show for the first time what happens in the magnetized gas (plasma) in the last stages of…
Curiosity Finds Ancient Streambed on Mars
While examining two outcrops, called “Hottah” and “Link,” NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence that a stream once ran between the north rim of Gale Crater…
Troughs Suggest Vesta Has Characteristics Like a Planet or Large Moon
Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, scientists have been working hard to determine the story behind the enormous troughs that wrap around the giant asteroid…
Mira Supercomputer Will Run Simulation of Our Universe
The advent of the Mira supercomputer, along with more powerful Sequoia and K supercomputers, marks the first time that computers have enough computational power to…
New Image of the Seagull Nebula
A close-up view of the head of the Seagull Nebula, which is located roughly 3,700 light-years away from Earth, was captured in this new image…
Short-Period Binary Stars Tend to Merge Into Single Star
A computer simulation suggests that there are many single stars that were born as two separate suns, which eventually merged into a single star during…
New XDF Image, The Deepest-Ever View of the Universe
This new full-color XDF image offers an improved portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe and contains about 5,500 galaxies. The Hubble Ultra Deep…
Chandra Shows Halo of Hot Gas Surrounding the Milky Way
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided evidence that our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas with a radius of…
