Hubble Views Star Formation within the Chamaeleon Cloud
This newly released Hubble image reveals star formation within the Chamaeleon cloud. This striking new image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, reveals…
This newly released Hubble image reveals star formation within the Chamaeleon cloud. This striking new image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, reveals…
Astronomers have reconstructed the short-lived nova explosion from white dwarf MAXI J0158−744, revealing for the first time the runaway fusion reaction that triggered the blast….
New images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show a partial solar eclipse from space. On January 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m. EST, the moon…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has charted the first ever map of the weather on the surface of a Brown Dwarf. An international team has made…
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer views stellar formation in the Trifid nebula, which is located 5,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. A storm of…
A newly published study details how massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to study active supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, revealing that local physical conditions near SMBHs rather than general properties…
Astronomers are preparing for Comet Siding Spring, which will pass Mars at a distance 10 times closer than any identified comet has ever flown past…
Using the Jansky Very Large Array, astronomers have discovered evidence supporting a solution to a 30-year puzzle about the birth of massive stars. An international…
The Green Bank Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen river of hydrogen streaming into the nearby galaxy NGC 6946, helping to reveal how certain spiral galaxies…
Using images and spectra from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers discovered evidence of shock-heated gas moving at speeds of about 2200 kilometers per second in…
Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope shows before and after images of supernova SN 2014J, which occurred 12 million light-years away in galaxy M82. An exceptionally close stellar…
This newly released Hubble image looks like something you would see at an art gallery, but the picture of brightly colored stellar streaks was…
New findings from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveal that Mars had an ancient wet environment that was milder and could have supported life. Some…
Astronomers reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. Located in the center of galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021, the black hole is 3.9 billion…
Using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, astrophysicists ran simulations charting the forces of the universe in its first hundreds of millions of years…
Data from Kepler has revealed a new Neptune-size exoplanet that is located in orbit around a star in a double-star system 425 light-years from the…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers have definitively detected water vapor on the dwarf planet Ceres, marking the first time water vapor has been unequivocally…