Researchers Turn Astronomical Data Into Music
A new website allows listeners to hear the music of the stars, turning Chandra X-ray data into musical notes. Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician,…
A new website allows listeners to hear the music of the stars, turning Chandra X-ray data into musical notes. Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician,…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used a flash of light from double-star system T Pyxidis to probe for the first time the 3-D structure…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have captured an image of the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, a planet with a predicted mass of only…
Research presented at the 222nd American Astronomical Society meeting suggests that the dwarf galaxy IC3418 has stopped making stars and that it is in the…
A rare stellar alignment will offer astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope two opportunities to search for Earth-like planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri….
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers report finding the earliest known galaxy undergoing a massive burst of star formation, existing at least as…
NASA’s Kepler Mission delivers new data, adding 1,924 new KOIs detected over a 34-month baseline. On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data…
In this new image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
Further analysis of Curiosity data has led researchers to believe that an ancient, flowing stream once existed on Mars. Pasadena, California – Detailed analysis and…
By combining GRAIL gravity data with computer models of large asteroid impacts and known details about the geologic evolution of impact craters, scientists were able…
Using the Deep Space Network antenna, astronomers have captured the first radar images of asteroid QE2. The asteroid is approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) in…
Researchers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752, finding that all of…
Researchers have found hints of evidence suggesting that Saturn’s moon Dione was likely active in the past, and could still be active now. From a…
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, scientists have identified 28 new asteroid families and have placed thousands of previously hidden and uncategorized asteroids into families…
Observations from NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have revealed that the rotation of neutron star 1E 2259+586 is slowing down, affecting this magnetar in exactly the…
On May 30th, NASA will hold a press conference to discuss the latest findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector aboard the Curiosity…
Researchers aim to analyze exoplanets in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in order to better understand the surface composition of exoplanets and to…
Researchers used the BEEER algorithm to identify a hot Jupiter in the Kepler light curve, Kepler-76b. Eight hundred and eighty nine exoplanets (planets around stars…