“Cosmic Web Stripping” – A New Way of Explaining the Lack of Observed Dwarf Galaxies
An international team of researchers has identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the lack of observed dwarf galaxies as compared with…
An international team of researchers has identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the lack of observed dwarf galaxies as compared with…
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists analyzed a massive storm on Saturn. The storm was the longest-lasting ever recorded on Saturn and it spawned…
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists detail the discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes,…
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers observed an unusual protostar that periodically emits infrared light bursts, becoming 10 times brighter every 25.34 days,…
Scientists believe the disk of material surrounding the 10 million year old star called TW Hydrae may be large enough to create an exotic planetary…
This ESO picture of the week shows the region around the Abell 901/902 supercluster of galaxies. It was created from images forming part of the…
Scientists were able to study the deformation of the sheath of electrons and ions enveloping Venus for the first time. In rare events, the sheath…
This new composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows superbubble DEM L50, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years…
Two new images from the Herschel Space Observatory highlight the ring-like swirls of dust that fill the Andromeda galaxy. The new eye-catching views from the…
In a newly published study, a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory suggest that the recently discovered twin lobes of gamma-ray emission protruding…
This composite image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows open cluster NGC 411, which is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Globular clusters are roughly…
Astronomers continue to research the HAT-P-7 planetary system, looking for new insights into how retrograde planets may form and endure. Astronomers have used the Subaru…
Astrophysicists at the University of Vermont have identified a pulsar that is able to quiet its radio waves while at the same time making its…
A newly published study from the University of Alberta examines what happens when binary stars come together in a common envelope, provides a way to…
A new video from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars that allows dust and gas to…
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s moons Prometheus and Pan through Saturn’s rings captured in visible violet light by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle…
Using a resolution five times higher than previous imagers, NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree…
Using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array, scientists led by Sebastien Muller have made the most precise measurement ever of how the universe has cooled…