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…
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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…
NASA Continues to Monitor Solar Flares
As NASA continues to give updates on the solar flares this week, they also put together a nice summary of space weather and the effects…
Brightest Gravitationally Magnified Galaxy Discovered
Using computational tools that reversed the effect of gravitational lensing, scientists were able see what a galaxy looked like 10 billion years ago. Gravity from…
Image of Twister in Action on the Surface of Mars
A recent image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a twisting column of dust more than…
Searching for “Bubbles” in the Milky Way
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic (MIPSGAL) surveys, volunteers have…
GRAIL Spacecraft Officially Begins Collecting Lunar Data
The GRAIL spacecraft has officially begun its science phase and will map the gravity field of the moon three times over the next 84 days,…
HFAs and Their Effect on Venus
Scientists are studying hot flow anomalies, HFAs, and their effect on the planet Venus. Unlike Earth, Venus is without a magnetic field and although the…
The Most Distant Cluster of Red Galaxies Ever Observed
Missed by previous surveys, astronomers using FourStar found 30 red galaxies, which form the earliest known “galaxy city” in the universe, located 10.5 billion light-years…