Hubble Image of the Week – Lenticular Galaxy PGC 83677
This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy PGC 83677, which is located 300 million light-years away. A lone source shines out brightly from the…
This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy PGC 83677, which is located 300 million light-years away. A lone source shines out brightly from the…
A new infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope may remind fans of Star Trek. Since ancient times, people have imagined familiar objects when gazing…
Astronomers may have detected the slowest spinning neutron star to date. The object is in the middle of the RCW 103 supernova remnant, which is…
New images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft peer through the haze that surrounds Titan, revealing dunes and other interesting features. New scenes from a frigid alien…
An international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that…
New research shows that a recently discovered mysterious X-ray signal most likely originates from sulfur ions, not from dark matter. A mysterious X-ray signal from…
This newly released image shows spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 50 million light-years away. The color blue has many associations — coldness,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory viewed both Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun. SDO keeps a constant eye on the sun, but…
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite…
Juno’s recent flyby of Jupiter has provided astronomers with images unlike anything previously seen. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s…
In this six-minute ESOcast video astronomers discuss the newly discovered Proxima b and the possibility of life outside our solar system. The Pale Red Dot…
This newly released image shows the southernmost part of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could “see” during its closest approach in July 2015. The…
Using Chandra and several other telescopes, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy cluster to date. This cluster, called CL J1001+0220, lies about 11.1 billion…
This new image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows an ethereal, glowing spot on Saturn’s B ring. There is nothing particular about that place in the…
New research suggests that IRAS 19312+1950 might be a protostar a star still in the making. For years, astronomers have puzzled over a massive star…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the center of the Milky Way was once a very active place. The center of…
This newly released Hubble images shows Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri…
Using data from NASA’s Juno probe, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of Jupiter and the many Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. Our galaxy…