Hubble Views Intermediate Spiral Galaxy NGC 1566
This newly released Hubble image shows intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1566, which is the second brightest Seyfert galaxy known. This new Hubble image shows NGC…
This newly released Hubble image shows intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1566, which is the second brightest Seyfert galaxy known. This new Hubble image shows NGC…
First released in 2002, this Hubble image of two colliding galaxies nicknamed “The Mice” has remained a fan favorite. Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, scientists measure the deformation of the moon due to Earth’s pull…
ESA’s Clean Space initiative is seeking to transform our understanding of how large, dead objects behave in space and is exploring why derelict satellites can…
This new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey takes a closer look at the Serpens Cloud Core, a…
New research from geologists at Brown University reveals that the slopes of the Martian volcano Arsia Mons may have been home to one of the…
Using observations of Saturn’s moon Titan by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument, astronomers have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of…
This newly released mosaic shows a crater-riddled region at the lunar south pole of our Moon. The dark and shadowed regions of the Moon fascinate…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used computer simulations of dark matter in the early universe to investigate if and how dark matter might…
New data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope reveals that the high-velocity cloud known as the Smith Cloud appears to be encased in…
This newly released Hubble images shows the young star IRAS 14568-6304. This new Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in…
An international team of astronomers has for the first time confirmed a link between the gamma bursts and their counterparts in several radio frequencies, solving…
New data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals a new feature about active black holes, leaving astronomers to reexamining a decades-old theory about the…
This newly released image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows star cluster NGC 3590, which is located roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. This colorful new…
Using an innovative sky survey called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, scientists have the first direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star died in a violent…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered cosmic clumps within a huge cosmic cloud of gas and dust that cast the deepest…
New research from the Carnegie Institute for Science has confirmed the distance of galaxy cluster JKCS 041, revealing 19 galaxies at precisely the same great…
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers make a direct comparison between observations and chemical models for oxygen species in conditions just before star…