Dawn Images Shine New Light on Vesta
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed previously unknown geological features about the asteroid Vesta. While Vesta is one of the brightest objects in…
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MESSENGER Reveals New Data About Mercury
There is more to Mercury than scientists previously thought. MESSENGER, the first ever probe to enter orbit around Mercury, has collected more than four million…
Emerald-Cut Dwarf Galaxy Located 70 Million Light-Years Away
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus Group, in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 074886 has been dubbed…
USGS Map Details Volcanos on the Surface of Io
This new map was published last Monday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and it showcases the hellish surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the…
Origins of Type Ia Supernovae
While studying SN 2011fe and using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, researchers were able to provide new insights into the origins of…
Cassini Data Helps Explain Saturn’s Stress on Enceladus
New images from the Cassini mission give insight into the mechanics of the jets at Enceladus and allow scientists to compare the spraying of water…
Fermi Finds Celestial Sources of Photons, Some Unexplainable
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has detected enough energetic photons to produce the first all-sky map of the very high energy universe. Since Fermi’s launch in…
Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses Viewed by Hubble
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the universe and make it nearly impossible for astronomers to estimate…
New WISE Atlas of Entire Infrared Sky Contains Over 18,000 Images
After more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light and more than 15 trillion bytes of returned data from the WISE…
Magnetic Anomalies on Moon
A new report suggests that the magnetic anomalies on the moon are remnants of a massive asteroid collision, which is believed to have occurred some…
Gas Flows Back Into Star-Forming Galaxies
To better understand how galaxies continue to turn one solar mass’s worth of matter per year into stars, a team of astronomers examined gas associated…
Spacecraft to Explore Supermassive Black Holes at Center of Galaxies
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that will be launched later this month has a modest budget…
New Image of an M7.9 Flare from Active Region 1429
NASA released a new image of a solar flare from active region 1429. On March 13, 2012, the sun erupted with an M7.9-class flare that…
“Zoom-Ins” Track and Model Parcels of Gas as They Move Inward Towards the Torus
Scientists aren’t sure how quasars form, how they develop in time, or how (or what) physical processes generate their stupendous energies; but by using a…
New NASA Videos of the Moon
Below are two new videos released from NASA showing the evolution of the moon and a narrated tour of the moon. A Narrated Tour of…
Inclined Orbit to Improve Space Telescope Sensitivity
Dust and light from the zodiacal cloud in our solar system interfere with infrared, optical, and ultraviolet observations. By placing a space telescope on an…
Thermonuclear Behavior of Neutron Star Bridges Gap Between Theory and Observation
Over the period of roughly one month, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observed some 400 thermonuclear explosions on the surface of the neutron star…
Amino Acids Found in Meteorites that Experienced High Temperatures
While analyzing samples from carbon-rich meteorites with minerals that indicated they had experienced high temperatures, scientists found amino acids, which gives support to the theory…