Subaru Telescope Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy M63
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…
Astronomy News
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Gets a Better View of Saturn’s Rings
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…
NEOWISE Reveals Size Distributions of Comet Populations
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…
Cassini Continues to Reveal Surprises During Its Grand Finale
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…
ESO Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7098
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…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 4248
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…
NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover Captures Panorama Above “Perseverance Valley”
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…
Hubble Views Tiny Moon Phobos Orbiting the Red Planet
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…
SpARCS Collaboration Measures Star-Forming Material in Early Universe
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…
Physicists Use the Universe as a “Cosmological Collider”
Scientists are capitalizing on a direct connection between the largest cosmic structures and the smallest known objects to use the universe as a “cosmological collider.”…
Massive Asteroid Impact Could Explain Martian Geological Mysteries
A newly published study reveals that a colossal impact with a large asteroid is a likely cause for the mysterious features found on Mars. The…
New Horizons Captures New Data on Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69….
Astronomers Reveal a High-Energy Trap in Our Galaxy’s Center
New research reveals that the center of our Milky Way contains a “trap” that concentrates some of the highest-energy cosmic rays. A combined analysis of…
Backyard Worlds Planet 9 Citizen Science Project Discovers a Brown Dwarf
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project has discovered its first substellar object, WISEA J110125.95+540052.8 – a T5.5 brown dwarf located approximately 34 pc…
Astronomers Discover Smallest Star to Date, EBLM J0555-57Ab
A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered the smallest star to date. The star is about the size of Saturn….
Cassini Views Enceladus’ Intriguing South-Polar Jets
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. Observations of the…
NASA Records the Eerie Sounds of Plasma Waves Surrounding Earth
NASA scientists, with the help of the Van Allen Probes mission, have recorded the eerie sounds made by different plasma waves in the particle symphony…
Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy NGC 4242
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy NGC 4242, which is located 30 million light-years away. Tucked away in the small northern constellation of…