Fermi Reveals Distinctive Properties of Blazars
A team of astronomers has used Fermi data to reveal how blazars are distributed throughout the universe and to show the distinctive properties that define…
A team of astronomers has used Fermi data to reveal how blazars are distributed throughout the universe and to show the distinctive properties that define…
This new Hubble image is one of the most comprehensive pictures ever assembled of the evolving Universe. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is 2.3 times larger…
This XMM-Newton image reveals a strongly magnetized, rotating neutron star and the remains of the explosion that generated it. Massive stars end their lives with…
Astronomers shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few young stars. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on…
This newly released Hubble image shows intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1566, which is the second brightest Seyfert galaxy known. This new Hubble image shows NGC…
First released in 2002, this Hubble image of two colliding galaxies nicknamed “The Mice” has remained a fan favorite. Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, scientists measure the deformation of the moon due to Earth’s pull…
This new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey takes a closer look at the Serpens Cloud Core, a…
Using observations of Saturn’s moon Titan by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument, astronomers have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of…
This newly released mosaic shows a crater-riddled region at the lunar south pole of our Moon. The dark and shadowed regions of the Moon fascinate…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used computer simulations of dark matter in the early universe to investigate if and how dark matter might…
New data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope reveals that the high-velocity cloud known as the Smith Cloud appears to be encased in…
This newly released Hubble images shows the young star IRAS 14568-6304. This new Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in…
An international team of astronomers has for the first time confirmed a link between the gamma bursts and their counterparts in several radio frequencies, solving…
New data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals a new feature about active black holes, leaving astronomers to reexamining a decades-old theory about the…
This newly released image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows star cluster NGC 3590, which is located roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. This colorful new…
Using an innovative sky survey called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, scientists have the first direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star died in a violent…