Gorgeous Ring of Stellar Wildfire Captured by Hubble Space Telescope
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from…
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from…
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren’t sure just how much there actually is in the Sun’s…
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth. V745 Sco…
Small telescope and inexpensive diffuser key to results. New detailed observations with NSF’s NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the…
Scientists from the University of Valencia detect rapid changes in a black hole that may help understand the origin of gamma-ray bursts. A team from…
All the chemical elements in the universe, except for hydrogen and most of the helium, were produced inside stars. But among them, there are a…
Rare, Extremely Metal-Poor Nearby Galaxy Discovered With Machine Learning Astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories – Subaru Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory – combined with…
Hubble Uses Our Moon to Probe Earth’s Atmosphere During a Lunar Eclipse Astronauts who have gazed at Earth from space have been awestruck at our…
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions….
Theory of loop quantum cosmology describes how tiny primordial features account for anomalies at the largest scales of the universe. While Einstein’s theory of general…
Using the supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a…
A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active…
Water is a key substance in the meteorology of planets and is believed to play a key role in their formation. Terrestrial storms are driven…
Calcium-rich supernova examined with X-rays for first time. Half of all the calcium in the universe — including the very calcium in our teeth and…
Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is evidenced by a new image of the star RU Lup, made…
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo…
The barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 shows its best side from 270 million light-years away to anyone who can see it from the…