Astronomers Capture New Image of the Clouds around Star Cluster NGC 3572
Using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have captured a new image of the…
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Cassini Provides New View of Saturn and Earth
This newly released image sweeps nearly 405,000 miles across Saturn and its inner rings, showing a natural-color portrait of Saturn, its moons and rings, plus…
New Image of the Andromeda Galaxy
This newly released image shows the Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth. This bright image shows the Andromeda Galaxy,…
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal Stellar Birth
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
Astronomers Discover “Old Young” Stars in the Eagle Nebula
While studying 110 stars located in the Eagle Nebula, astronomers discovered pre-main-sequence stars that were red in color and showed evidence for accretion, but were…
Hubble Views Stellar Explosions in NGC 6984
In this new image, the Hubble Space Telescope views spiral galaxy NGC 6984 and supernova SN 2013ek. Supernovae are intensely bright objects. They are…
Hubble Captures the Best Ever Image of the Antennae Galaxies
This newly released Hubble image shows the Antennae Galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the…
Astronomers Discover a New Type of Quasar
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have discovered a new type of quasar in which gas appears to be heading away and…
Voyager 1 Presents the “Sounds” of Interstellar Space
A new ScienceCast video answers the question, what does interstellar space sound like? As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for…
Hubble Sees an Asteroid with Six Comet-Like Tails
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have viewed for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it. Astronomers viewing…
GRAIL Mission Provides New Insight into How the Moon Got Its “Face”
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, researchers offer new insight into how the moon received its “face.” Scientists using data from…
Research Sheds New Light on Dark Energy
Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy and eliminate the possibility that our planet, solar system and galaxy are at the center of the…
New Model Shows How a Collapsing Star Results in Two Black Holes that Form and Fuse
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…
A Two-Minute Tour of Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxy M60-UCD1
This two minute NASA video details M60-UCD1, an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a mass about 200 million times that of our sun. Two-Minute Tour: An…
Astronomers Discover New Information about Black Hole Mergers
While searching for gravitational waves generated by supermassive black holes merging, astronomers using the Parkes Radio Telescope have discovered new information about the frequency and…
New Cassini Image of Saturn’s Rings and Moons
This new image from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s rings and five of its moons. Five moons pose for the international Cassini spacecraft to create…
Astrophysicists Discover Black Holes in Globular Star Clusters
Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of astrophysicists discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy….
Astronomers Estimate One in Five Sol-Like Stars Have Planets Conducive to Life
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like our Sun have planets about the…