Hubble Image of the Week: A Galactic Mega-Merger
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3597, which is located 150 million light-years away. The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3597, which is located 150 million light-years away. The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
The latest New Horizons image reveals some intriguing surface activity on Pluto. Transmitted to Earth on December 24, this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance…
Astronomers believe globular star clusters might be excellent places to search for interstellar civilizations. Their crowded nature means intelligent life at our stage of technological…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy. When some speedy, massive…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered Eta Carinae “twins” in other galaxies that will help scientists better understand this brief phase…
Using Chandra observations, astronomers have discovered one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing powerful outbursts. Such outbursts are part…
New research uses the G1 and G2 gas clouds to probe the accretion flow feeding Sgr A∗. The center of our Milky Way galaxy, about…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history this year giving us a close-up view of Pluto for the first time. Now it will start the New…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, which is located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The…
New observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that the X-ray emissions from Pictoris A are produced by rapidly moving charged particles in magnetic fields….
This highly detailed image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders on the surface of Mars. The striking feature in this image, acquired by the…
This Hubble image of the week shows the galaxy NGC 6052, which is located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It…
This seven minute video from the European Southern Observatory details the discovery of exoplanets over the last twenty years. Not a single confirmed planet outside…
This false-color image of Pluto is perfect for the Christmas holiday season. Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green. This…
New research from the University of Leicester reveals how large black holes can grow to. Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to…
Unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload has led to NASA’s decision to suspend the…
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide a better look at the surface of Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have found telltale differences between the gaps in the gas and the dust in discs around four young…