Astrophysicists Solve Mystery of How Antimatter in the Milky Way Forms
In a newly published study led by Australian National University, astrophysicists reveal how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. Antimatter is material…
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Cassini Sees the Slim Crescent of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows the low angle of sunlight along the slim crescent of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, highlighting the many…
Astronomers Identify a Regular Pattern in the Orbits TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. This…
Hubble Views Nebula Sh2-308 Surrounding Star EZ Canis Majoris
This Hubble image of the week shows nebula Sh2-308 surrounding the massive and violent star named EZ Canis Majoris. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope still…
New Models of Star-Forming Filamentary Clouds
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics present new models of star-forming filamentary clouds in order to quantify their properties and to predict their evolution….
Astronomers Discover Disk Around Planetary-Mass Object OTS44
First radio observations of the planetary-mass object OTS44 reveal a dusty protoplanetary disk that is very similar to disks around young stars. Astronomers are surprised…
Titan’s Landscape Resembles That of Mars, not Earth
New research from MIT shows that the origins of surface elevations on Mars and Titan are very different from that on Earth. The environment on…
Astronomers Prepare for Juno’s Fifth Science Pass of Jupiter
NASA astronomers prepare for Juno’s fifth science flyby of Jupiter. On Thursday, May 18, at 11 p.m. PDT, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fifth…
Hubble Reveals Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet in the Kuiper Belt
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. Cataloged as 2007 OR10, the…
ALMA Views Fomalhaut Star System in Never-Before-Seen Detail
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris…
NASA’s MMS Uncovers New Type of Motion Exhibited by Electrons in Space
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission reveals a bizarre new type of motion exhibited by the high-energy electrons can damage satellites in orbit and trigger auroras. With…
New Study Reveals How Rain Reshaped the Surface of Mars
A newly published study from the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University reveals that heavy rain on Mars reshaped the planet’s impact craters and…
ALMA Views a Newborn Star Enshrouded in Dust
This newly released ALMA image shows a newborn star enshrouded in dust. This intriguing image may look like a collection of colored blobs, but it…
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Observes Ceres at Opposition from Sun
On April 29th NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface. Mission specialists…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views Saturn’s Shadow
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s shadow as seen by the Cassini Spacecraft. The projection of Saturn’s shadow on the rings grows shorter…
CfA Astronomers Analyze Obscured Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
Hubble Image of the Week – Crab Nebula in Bright Neon Colors
By combining data from several telescopes, astronomers created this captivating new image of the Crab Nebula. The unusual image was produced by combining data from…
Astronomers Discover a Potential Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…