Hubble Views Two Galaxies in Our Local Neighborhood
This newly released Hubble image shows the tiny galaxy NGC 1510 and its colossal neighbor NGC 1512 at the beginning of their lengthy merger. The…
This newly released Hubble image shows the tiny galaxy NGC 1510 and its colossal neighbor NGC 1512 at the beginning of their lengthy merger. The…
This Hubble image of the week shows spiral galaxy NGC 4656, which is located roughly 30 million light-years away. The star of this Hubble Picture…
New research from NASA reveals the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical…
Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, a team of astronomers has found what looks like three different generations of baby stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster….
Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, this newly released image shows Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in true color. This image of…
This newly released false-color view from the Cassini Spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn’s sunlit horizon. Along the limb (the planet’s edge) at left…
The Cassini Spacecraft has made a surprising detection of a molecule that is instrumental in producing complex organics within the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon…
Astronomers may now be able to explain why the Sun’s magnetic field reverses every eleven years. New research explains how the duration of the magnetic…
A team at NASA’s Ames Research Center has created a simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at the unexplored poles of the Moon….
This Subaru Telescope image of the week shows spiral galaxy M63, which is located approximately 24 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new image of Saturn’s rings on April 10th at a distance of 1.1 million kilometers. Although the rings lack the…
Using NEOWISE data from the four-band and three-band cryogenic phases of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, astronomers reveal that large, distant comets are more…
The Cassini Spacecraft continues to make its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, revealing surprising details about the planet. Scientists are…
The European Southern Observatory’s image of the week gives us a closer look at spiral galaxy NGC 7098. Approximately 95 million light-years away, in the…
This Hubble image of the week shows the clump of glowing gas, dust, and glittering stars known as spiral galaxy NGC 4248. NGC 4248 is…
This new panoramic view was captured by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like…
The international SpARCS collaboration has made the best measurement yet of the amount of fuel available to form stars in clusters of galaxies located in…