Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam Displays Its Capabilities, Views M31
Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam displays its abilities with an impressive image of M31. A stunning image of M31 captured by Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC)…
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Views Hovnatanian Crater on Mercury
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft captures a color image of the Hovnatanian crater, an elliptical crater on Mercury. This color image, taken on May 1, 2013 by…
SEEDS Project Discovers “Second Jupiter” – Lowest-Mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-Like Star
Astronomers in the SEEDS Project have discovered the least massive planet ever detected around a star like the sun. A so-called “second Jupiter,” planet GJ…
Hubble Reveals a New Kind of Stellar Blast Called a Kilonova
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new type of stellar explosion called a kilonova. Kilonovas are about 1,000 times brighter than a nova, but they…
Astronomers Discover Unusual Stars with Extremely High Concentrations of Lead in Their Atmospheres
While studying subdwarf stars, a team of astronomers discovered two unusual stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. They estimate that the…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 4517
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4517, which is located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Another treasure…
Contrary to Previous Theories, Massive Galaxies Slow Their Growth Over Time
Using data from Spitzer and WISE, scientists reveal in a new study that massive galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and…
‘Lazarus Comets’ Return to Life after Being Inactive for Millions of Years
Scientists have discovered a graveyard of comets where some of the dormant objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life from an increase…
Hubble Survey Helps Solve “Quenched” Galaxy Mystery
Data from Hubble’s COSMOS survey helps solve the mystery of “quenched” galaxies, finding that larger galaxies were “switching off” at later times and adding their…
Astrophysicists Discover a New Class of Star Cluster
Using Hubble and the W. M. Keck Observatory’s 10-meter (33-ft) telescope in Hawaii, astrophysicists discovered several star clusters with sizes and masses that were previously…
Spitzer Discovers a Young Stellar System That “Blinks” Every 93 Days
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a young stellar system that “blinks” every 93 days. This is the fourth example of…
Cassini Reveals Forces Controlling Saturn Moon Jets
Using data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published study reveals that the intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that…
New ESOcast Video Explores 30 Years of Astronomical Images
This new eight minute video from the European Southern Observatory explores 30 years worth of astronomical images produced by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the…
Planetary ‘Runaway Greenhouse’ Climates More Easily Triggered than Previously Thought
A newly published study suggests that planetary “runaway greenhouse” climates are more easily triggered than previously thought. It might be easier than previously thought for…
New Method for Measuring Black Hole Spin Could Provide a Greater Understanding of Galaxy Growth
By being able to measure the distance between the black hole and the accretion disc, astronomers have developed a new method for measuring spin in…
Scientists Determine the Interior Rotation of a Sun-Like Star
Using asteroseismic data obtained by the CoRoT space telescope, a team of scientists was able to measure the internal rotation of a Sun-like star and…
Chandra Views an Eclipsing Exoplanet for First Time
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory has revealed the first exoplanet caught passing in front of its…
New VLT Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 100
This newly released Very Large Telescope image shows spiral galaxy Messier 100 and the huge clouds of hydrogen gas that make up galaxies of this…