Astronomers Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers have discovered a star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk — a primordial ring of gas…
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Cassini Views Saturn’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Astronomers are using Saturn’s clouds to study fluid dynamics, which seeks to understand the motion of gases and liquids. Saturn’s lack of a solid planetary…
Hubble Image of the Week – Globular Cluster NGC 362
This newly released Hubble image shows globular cluster NGC 362, which is located 27,000 light-years away. Globular clusters offer some of the most spectacular sights…
Hubble Views the Red Spider Nebula
This newly released Hubble image shows the Red Spider Nebula, which is located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. Huge waves are…
Astronomers Reveal That Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons
New research suggests that there could be two previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near Uranus’ rings. Rob Chancia, a University of Idaho doctoral student, spotted key…
Hotspots in Active Galactic Nucleus Cygnus A
Astronomers used the Low Frequency Array radio telescope to obtain high spatial resolution images of the hotspots in Cygnus A, providing the first direct evidence…
Discovery of First Binary-Binary Questions What We Know About the Solar System
Binary system HD 87646 raises new questions about how protoplanetary disks form. Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Cosmic Objects Erupting in X-rays
Using data from both Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers discovered two flaring objects in two different galaxies. These objects brighten in X-rays by a factor of…
Kepler Helps Show What Conditions Might Look Like on Various Hot Jupiters
Data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and computer modeling show an approximation of what various hot Jupiters might look like. The weather forecast for faraway,…
VLT Provides Highest Resolution Image to Date of Eta Carinae
Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a team of astronomers reveals the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever achieved. High-resolution images reveal…
New Research Challenges Solar Radiation Models
This video compares the two models for particle distribution over the course of just three hours after a SEP event. The white line represents a…
MAVEN Mission Provides Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars
New images from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior. They include the…
Cassini Views a Lonely Moon of Saturn
This new Cassini image shows Saturn’s moon Pandora in isolation beside Saturn’s kinked and constantly changing F ring. Pandora (near upper right) is 50 miles…
Astronomers Study a Star’s Environment from Light Curves
Using the ALMA telescopes, astronomers discovered a circumstellar disk around the star EPIC 204278916 and offer several explanations for the dips including that they are…
Hubble Image of the Week – The Toucan and the Cluster
This newly released Hubble image shows an open star cluster NGC 299. It may be famous for hosting spectacular sights such as the Tucana Dwarf…
VISTA Finds Remains of Archaic Globular Star Cluster in The Milky Way
Using ESO’s infrared VISTA telescope, astronomers have discovered ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, in the center of the Milky Way for…
Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Previously Thought
A new study of Hubble’s deep-field surveys reveals that at least 10 times more galaxies exist in the observable universe than astronomers thought. The universe…
LRO Spacecraft Reveals Earth’s Moon Hit by Surprising Number of Meteoroids
A newly published study reveals that a random bombardment by comets, asteroids and associated fragments are altering the lunar surface at a higher rate than…