New Hubble Image of One of the Oldest Known Globular Clusters
This newly released Hubble image shows star cluster Messier 15, which is one of the oldest known globular clusters and is located roughly 35,000 light-years…
This newly released Hubble image shows star cluster Messier 15, which is one of the oldest known globular clusters and is located roughly 35,000 light-years…
Using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 728 nanometers, this newly released image of Saturn and its rings was taken…
Using the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, researchers perform large-scale supercomputing simulations of massive stars forming from the collapse of giant,…
Astronomers have developed a new computational algorithm that allows them to follow the star formation process down to the very small scales, tracking the development…
Using data from Chandra, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities, scientists have created new three-dimensional (3D) viewer that will allow users to see the…
New detailed radio data has revealed that what scientists thought was spiral galaxy UGC 10288 is actually two galaxies, one lying behind the other. What…
A composite image from Hubble and Sloan Digital Sky Survey data reveals how Milky Way-like galaxies have evolved over time. This composite image shows examples…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a newly published study reveals the first visual evidence of how the Milky Way has evolved over the…
Using data from the XMM-Newton satellite and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array, astronomers reveal the contents of mysterious black hole jets. An international team of…
As scientists ready for the launch of the MAVEN orbiter, a newly released ScienceCast video ponders the question, What Happened to Mars? Billions of years…
Using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have captured a new image of the…
This newly released image sweeps nearly 405,000 miles across Saturn and its inner rings, showing a natural-color portrait of Saturn, its moons and rings, plus…
This newly released image shows the Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth. This bright image shows the Andromeda Galaxy,…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
While studying 110 stars located in the Eagle Nebula, astronomers discovered pre-main-sequence stars that were red in color and showed evidence for accretion, but were…
In this new image, the Hubble Space Telescope views spiral galaxy NGC 6984 and supernova SN 2013ek. Supernovae are intensely bright objects. They are…
This newly released Hubble image shows the Antennae Galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have discovered a new type of quasar in which gas appears to be heading away and…