Mysterious Lithium-Rich Star in Messier 4
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured a new image of globular star cluster…
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Filament Explosion
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a spectacular video of a filament eruption from Sol, which occurred on August 31st. The segment is in red,…
Weather Satellite Captures Image of “Blue” Moon
The Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager captured an image of the second full moon of the month – known as a ‘Blue’ Moon. Europe’s…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes First Deep-Space Maneuver
NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully performed its first deep-space maneuver, firing its main engine and changing its trajectory as it continues on its mission toward Jupiter….
Hubble Image of NGC 5806 with a Supernova Explosion
This Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 5806, which is located in the constellation Virgo roughly 80 million light years from Earth, and a supernova…
Natural Color View of Saturn and Titan
Created by combining six images from the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera, this mosaic shows a natural color view of Saturn and Titan. A giant of…
LRO Radar Data Indicates That the Walls of Shackleton Crater on the Moon May Hold Ice
Using the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of scientists have estimated that as much as five to ten percent of material,…
A Superbubble in Star Cluster NGC 1929
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Max-Planck-ESO telescope, this composite image shows a superbubble in NGC 1929, which…
Scientists Use Light From an Exploding Star to Study Distant Galaxy
A recently published study details how scientists used light from an exploding star as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between…
NASA’s WISE Discovers Millions of Black Holes
Documented in three new studies, data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission was used to discover millions of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme…
Sugar Molecules Found in Gas Surrounding Sun-Like Star
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple form of sugar in the gas surrounding a young binary…
Pair of Eclipsing White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational Waves
Discovered last year in system J0651, two white dwarf stars are so close together that they make a complete orbit in less than 13 minutes…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Transiting Planets Orbiting Two Suns
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The planets are in the Kepler-47 system, which is located…
Curiosity Sends Back Radioed Words and New Telephoto View of Mars
Using the 100-millimeter telephoto lens and the 34-millimeter wide angle lens of the Mast Camera instrument, Curiosity beamed back a new image of the base…
Rapid Star Formation Observed in the Phoenix Cluster
Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities, a team of astronomers discovered the…
Hubble Views Globular Cluster Messier 56
Consisting of visible and near-infrared exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, the above image shows globular cluster Messier 56, which is located in the…
Curiosity’s ChemCam Laser Yields Good Results
The results are coming in and they look good. Scientists confirmed that the ChemCam laser on NASA’s Curiosity rover has produced strong, clear data about…
The First-Ever Direct Observations of a Type 1a Supernova Progenitor System
Using data from the Palomar Transient Factory Real-Time Detection Pipeline, astronomers were able to verify and document the first-ever direct observations of a Type 1a…
