Juno Spacecraft Set to Fly Over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10th, helping astronomers better understand how this giant storm works and what…
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Hubble Image of the Week – Hidden Galaxy IC 342
This Hubble image of the week shows “Hidden Galaxy” IC 342, which is located 11 million light-years away. IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target….
Astronomers Puzzled by Detection of Strong X-Rays from Pluto
Chandra reveals that the X-ray emission from Pluto is as strong as that coming from solar system objects with much more substantial atmospheres. Pluto is…
JunoCam Image of the ‘Face’ of Jupiter
This fun image from NASA’s Juno Spacecraft shows the “face” of Jupiter. JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed…
NASA Researchers Simulate Life-Threatening Asteroid Impacts
Using the Pleiades supercomputer, NASA scientists are simulating asteroid impacts to help identify possible life-threatening events. When an asteroid struck the Russian city of Chelyabinsk…
Researchers Reveal That Hidden Dimensions Could Influence Gravitational Waves
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics reveal that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views Three of Saturn’s Small Ring Moon
This newly released montage of views from the Cassini Spacecraft shows three of Saturn’s small ring moons: Atlas, Daphnis and Pan at the same scale…
Very Long Baseline Array Discovers Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a team of astronomers has made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black…
NASA Astronomers Predict Solar Minimum is Coming
Our sun is heading toward solar minimum. Sunspot counts were relatively high in 2014, and now they are sliding toward a low point expected in…
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover Examines the Edge of Endeavour Crater
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover examines rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or…
Chandra Reveals 25 Bright Point-Like X-Ray Sources in Arp 299
New Chandra data has revealed 25 bright point-like X-ray sources in Arp 299, 14 of which are categorized as “ULXs”. These ULXs are likely binary…
ALMA Captures Highest-Resolution Image of Nearby Star Betelgeuse
This new image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the nearby star Betelgeuse. This is the first time that ALMA has ever observed…
Astronomers Reveal the Role of Mergers in Shaping Galaxies
A new analysis of eighteen thousand colliding galaxies reveals that mergers like the one in galaxy NGC 4676 are the dominant mechanism for determining the…
Hubble Image of the Week – 2XMM J143450.5+033843
This newly released Hubble image shows Seyfert galaxy 2XMM J143450.5+033843, which is located nearly 400 million light-years away from Earth. Not all galaxies have the…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Views Jupiter’s Bands of Clouds
Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno Spacecraft, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of…
Astronomers Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules
For the first time, a computer simulation shows how solar material burst from the sun’s surface form, helping astronomers understand how these spicules can break…
European Space Agency to Develop Gravitational Wave Space Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for its third large-class mission in the agency’s Cosmic Vision science program….
Astronomers Discover Dead Disk Galaxy, Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making…