Hubble Views Three Moons Transiting the Face of Jupiter
Taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in visible light, these new images capture the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter’s largest moons (Europa, Callisto,…
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New Horizons Returns New Images of Pluto
Headed towards Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured this new image of Pluto and its moon Charon. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first…
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Gets a Closer View of Ceres
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of Ceres. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, the pictures represent…
VISTA Views the Trifid Nebula and Reveals Previously Hidden Objects
A newly released image taken from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope shows the Trifid Nebula and reveals hidden variable stars. By observing in infrared light, astronomers…
Astronomers Identify New Details in Spiral Galaxy M51a
Using CWRU’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at KPNO, astronomers identify two new tidal streams extending from the northeast and south of the nearby spiral galaxy M51a….
BICEP2/Keck Find No Conclusive Evidence of Gravitational Waves from Early Universe
A new analysis of data has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the early universe, showing that much of the signal detected by…
The Spitzer Interacting Galaxies Survey: An Infrared Atlas of Interacting Galaxies
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics report that, when compared with non-interacting field galaxies, the star formation rate does indeed increase in merging spirals,…
Dancing on the Edge – Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7814
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7814. Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented in any way relative to us in…
3D Map of Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals near-infrared observations of the young Milky Way supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and a three-dimensional map of…
Transforming Mini-Neptunes into Habitable Super-Earths
A new study from the University of Washington details how strong irradiation from the host star can cause planets known as mini-Neptunes in the habitable…
Titan Exposed to the Full Force of the Solar Wind
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has observed Titan in the supersonic and super-Alfvénic solar wind, revealing that Titan’s interaction with the solar wind is in many ways…
Hubble Telescope Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7714, which is located 100 million light-years from Earth. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of…
New VLT Image of Cometary Globule CG4
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows cometary globule CG4, which is located about 1300 light-years from Earth. Like the gaping mouth…
A New Way to Detect the Early Stages of Massive Star Formation
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, volunteers discovered a new way to detect the early stages of massive star formation. Sometimes it takes a…
HESS Discovers New Gamma Ray Sources in Large Magellanic Cloud
The H.E.S.S. telescope system has discovered three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Once again, the gamma-ray observatory H.E.S.S. has demonstrated its…
Ring System Around J1407b is Roughly 200 Times Larger Than Saturn’s Rings
A new study from astronomers at the Leiden Observatory reveals details about the gigantic ring system around J1407b. Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands,…
Kepler-444: An Ancient Extrasolar System with Five Sub-Earth-Size Planets
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered a compact system of five transiting planets with sizes between those of Mercury and Venus. They…
Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Ceres
The sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres were taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on January 25. The images were taken 147,000 miles…