Hubble Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 6753
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows spiral galaxy NGC 6753, which is located roughly 150 million light-years away. Despite the advances made…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows spiral galaxy NGC 6753, which is located roughly 150 million light-years away. Despite the advances made…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time. The new discovery around…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered the first unambiguous signs of a hot stratosphere, heated to a blazing 2400 Celsius, in…
Researchers from NASA have discovered evidence that Mars’ crust is not as dense as previously thought, a clue that could help scientists better understand the…
Twice the size of any planet found in our solar system, WASP-12b has the unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible…
New research from Notre Dame lends support to an existing theory of how binary star system AR Scorpii emits energy. Astronomers studying the unique binary…
This newly released image comes from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft as it gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the…
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers measures how a galaxy’s spin affects its shape. It sounds simple, but measuring a galaxy’s true…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft completed its final flyby of Saturn’s giant moon Titan and is now headed toward its September 15 plunge into Saturn. The spacecraft…
Taken on October 28, 2016, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings. Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for nearly…
Using images from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft, astronomers put together this short movie sequence. The images were…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft performed its eighth flyby of Jupiter, capturing a series of up close and personal enhanced-color images of the gas giant planet. From…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows NGC 5398, a barred spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away. The galaxy is famous…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn’s rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. Resulting from…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is nearing the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, and it is having a powerful influence on…
In a new study, astronomers modeled observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni during the most active phase of its June 2015 outburst….
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named 14 Pluto surface features and many more will soon be proposed to the IAU, both on Pluto…
New research indicates older Sun-like stars settle down relatively quickly, boosting prospects for life to develop on planets around them. A new X-ray study has…