Possible Death of Solar System Seen in White Dwarf Stars
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have been able to probe into the chemical signatures of dusky disks encircling four distant star systems. They discovered…
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Astronomers Observed Evolved Star Being Devoured
A team of CfA astronomers is reporting that the object they observed using the Pan-STARRS telescope was a supermassive black hole, roughly two million solar…
Schumann Resonance Could Help Reveal the Solar System’s Origins
In 2011 researchers realized that they could use NASA’s Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the Air Force’s Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite to detect Schumann…
Black Hole Rips Apart a Helium Rich Star
Data captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope show direct evidence of a supermassive black hole using its powerful gravitational forces to…
View the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower From Halley’s Comet
Star gazing fans will get to enjoy the peek display of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower from Halley’s Comet on the night of May…
Corkscrew Lava Coils Seen on Mars in Athabasca Valles
NASA’s HiRISE spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Mars, spotted these interesting patterns, which are actually rare lava flows. This is the first time that lava…
APEX Provides Images of Dust near Orion’s Belt
New images captured by Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope show clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula Messier 78. The images were created by overlaying…
Astronomers Discover Large Group of Rogue Stars
As scientists are learning more about rogue stars, they are also learning new ways to locate them. A new study from astronomers at Vanderbilt University…
Extraordinary Outburst From Black Hole in Galaxy M83
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists discovered a new ultraluminous X-ray source located in spiral galaxy M83, which is roughly 15 million light years from…
Astronomers Discover Radio Emissions From a Brown Dwarf
Using the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a team of astrophysicists from Penn State have discovered radio emissions from a brown dwarf in the…
Hubble Views Star in Preplanetary Nebula Stage
A new image produced from exposures in visible and infrared light from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 shows a star from the Egg Nebula running…
WISE Views Aging Star Erupting With Dust
Using images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, scientists were able to locate an aging star releasing large amounts of dust as it begins the…
Saturn’s Moon Phoebe Has Planet-Like Qualities
More than 60 moons orbit Saturn and by combining data from NASA’s Cassini mission with modeling techniques, scientists have so far been able to identify…
Three Earthlike Planets Could be Hospitable to Life
As NASA’s Kepler Mission continues to supply important data and continuously monitors stars for transit signals, astronomers from Cornell University focused on 80 M dwarf…
A Closer Look at Titan’s Chemical Production
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on Saturn’s moon Titan and predicted how long Titan’s chemical factory…
New Model May Rule Out the Presence of Dark Matter
Searching for dark matter and studying conventional models for the origin and evolution of the universe has led astronomers from the University of Bonn to…
Billionaires and Futurists Plan Space Missions to Mine Asteroids for Metals
It’s been long thought, especially in science-fiction, that once Earth’s dwindling metallic resources dry up, the human race would look to the stars for precious…
Sombrero Galaxy Exhibits Dual Characteristics
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that the Sombrero galaxy, also known as NGC 4594, is one of the first known galaxies to exhibit dual characteristics,…
