Astronomers Watch as a Black Hole Feeds on a Low-Mass Object
Using ESA’s Integral space observatory, astronomers discovered and watched a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 feed on a low-mass object that strayed too close….
Using ESA’s Integral space observatory, astronomers discovered and watched a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 feed on a low-mass object that strayed too close….
The remnant of Supernova 1987A continues to provide a wealth of information about one of the Universe’s most extreme events and now astronomers have made…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), revealing that ISON is shedding about 112,000 pounds (51,000 kg) of dust…
In the above image, Hubble views planetary nebula J 900 and a nearby star. The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900,…
Astronomers around the world are monitoring Comet 2013 A1, watching to see if it will strike Mars. Over the years, the spacefaring nations of Earth…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as NGC 1068. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of…
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests that the moons and rings of Saturn are more than 4 billion years old. A new analysis of data…
A team of scientists have discovered titanium oxide and titanium dioxide in the extended atmosphere around the giant star VY Canis Majoris. An international team…
In a new study, scientists use Herschel data to view a giant cloud of gas and dust called Westerhout 3 and to study the early…
ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this new image of blue stars in the open star cluster NGC 2547. This pretty sprinkling of bright…
Scheduled to launch in late 2013, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft will study the Martian upper atmosphere in detail, gathering information about relevant processes so scientists can…
Astronomers have discovered a new type of supernova that may not completely destroy the white dwarf. Called Type Iax, this new supernova is fainter and…
New research has unveiled an unexpected link between Vesta and the moon and has helped scientists better understand the event known as the “Lunar Cataclysm.”…
In this new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, you can see the worm-like galaxy known as IRAS 23436+5257. The shape is most…
Using data from the CANDELS project, scientists examine early galaxies and their specific properties, finding that star formation in blue galaxies have undergone collisions that…
In response to the newly released study that suggests Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space, NASA has released a statement stating that Voyager 1 has…
A newly published study details the drastic changes in radiation levels experienced by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft on August 25, 2012, possibly showing that Voyager…
A newly published study from astronomers at the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that distant quasars teamed up to stifle the formation of small galaxies…