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Using Chandra’s high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
Using Chandra’s high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
This four minute video from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center details the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. NASA | Propylene on Titan With…
A newly published study details the discovery of the most distant galaxy ever found. Dubbed z8_GND_5296, the galaxy is seen as it was at a…
New images of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan’s north pole reveal new clues about how the lakes formed…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of Comet ISON on October 9, 2013. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows C/2012 S1,…
Astronomers have discovered that Milky Way makes small wobbling or squishing movements, acting like a huge flag fluttering in the wind. 22 October 2013. Astronomers…
Set to launch on November 20th, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft will create a highly accurate 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy by repeatedly observing a…
After four plus years of service, scientists prepare the Planck satellite for its final shutdown and for permanent safe disposal. In preparation for its final…
As “big data” from space missions continues to pour in, scientists and software engineers are coming up with new strategies for managing the ever-increasing flow…
Using a novel astronomical survey software system, the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), astronomers have identified the first progenitor of a stripped envelope supernova. In…
Asteroid 2013 TV135 was discovered on October 8, 2013, roughly three weeks after it made a “close” approach to Earth. Newly discovered asteroid 2013 TV135…
In a newly published study, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Iowa State University detail the discovery of two planets in the Kepler-56 planetary…
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
This newly released image from ESO’s Paranal Observatory shows the super star cluster Westerlund 1 and the newly discovered clouds of glowing hydrogen gas around…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…