Global Network of Radio Telescopes Settles Controversy Over Distance to Pleiades
Using a global network of radio telescopes, astronomers have measured the distance to the Pleiades at 443 light-years – accurate to within one percent. Astronomers…
Using a global network of radio telescopes, astronomers have measured the distance to the Pleiades at 443 light-years – accurate to within one percent. Astronomers…
A team of astronomers studying the surface vibrations in thirty-four young stars has found a clear relationship between seismic observables and evolutionary status, and in…
Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge amount of fresh dust around NGC 2547-ID8, leaving scientists to believe that two large asteroids…
New research shows without a doubt that white dwarf stars can reignite and explode as supernovae. Astronomers using ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory have demonstrated beyond…
By combining observations from several telescopes, astronomers have viewed a massive galaxy in its core formation phase three billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers…
A team of astronomers has discovered that filaments of star-forming gas near the Orion Nebula may be brimming with pebble-size particles. If confirmed, these particles…
A team of astronomers has discovered indications of water clouds in the coldest known brown dwarf, which is located 7.3 light-years from Earth. Astronomers have…
A new four minute ScienceCasts video examines evidence that our solar system is inside a bubble of hot gas created by supernova explosions. ScienceCasts: Evidence…
The Eta Carinae star system reveals new clues about its nature through the X-rays it generates, including how the winds from the stars interact. The…
Astronomers have obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age….
This newly released image of Neptune and its large moon Triton was captured by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft as it continues on its voyager towards…
New images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show the M5 solar flare that erupted on August 24, 2014. On August 24, 2014, the sun emitted…
Rosetta Spacecraft data have allowed scientists to identify five candidate sites to set down the Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November. Using detailed information…
This image of Neptune reveals the Great Dark Spot and its adjacent bright smudge. On the western edge, you can see the swiftly moving bright…
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows a variety of intriguing cosmic phenomena – like a star in the early stages of its life…
Astronomers used a vast network of radio telescopes to obtain many images of supernova 2014J, revealing a lack of radio emission from the supernova and…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected a pair of white dwarf stars that orbit in about 20 minutes and that can be…
The Lunar and Planetary Institute used Voyager’s 1989 historic footage of Neptune’s moon Triton to construct the best-ever global color map of the strange moon….