Hubble Views Planetary Nebula NGC 5189
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 5189, which is located several thousand light-years away in the southern…
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Crab Nebula Contains Enough Dust to Make Around 40,000 Earths
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a team of astronomers discovered filaments of dust shining in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, providing definitive evidence…
Survey of Galaxies Reveals Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from Chandra observations of 62 nearby galaxies and data from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey, scientists have shown that 37 of the…
Study Challenges the Idea That a Supernova Prompted the Formation of the Solar System
By testing meteorites, a team of scientists discovered that levels of iron 60 were uniform and low in early solar system material, suggesting that that…
First Detection of Radio-Emitting Jets from a Stellar-Mass Black Hole Outside Our Galaxy
A newly published study reveals the first detection of radio-emitting jets moving at more than 85 percent the speed of light from a stellar-mass black…
4.5 km Asteroid Tumbles Past Earth
NASA’s Goldstone radar is capturing new images of the 4.5 km asteroid Toutatis as it passes by Earth this month. This week, NASA’s Goldstone radar…
Cassini Spots a Nile Like River Valley on Titan
Cassini has spotted a river valley, which scientists believe is filled with liquid, on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than 400 km. The international…
ALMA Will Allow Scientists to See the Universe Like Never Before
The largest ground-based radio telescope in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), can detect hidden gases inside galaxies that might hold the key…
Image Shows Galaxy Cluster “Tails”
A composite image shows two “tails” that were created when cool gas from ESO 137-001 was stripped by hot gas as it travels toward the…
Disk Around Protostar L1527 IRS Behaves Like a Proto Solar-System
Using the Submillimeter Array and another radio telescope to study the disk around protostar L1527 IRS, astronomers were able to measure properties of the circumstellar…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 922
This new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 922, which is located about 157 million light years from Earth and was formed by the collision…
WISE Spots Massive Distant Galaxy Cluster
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers discovered a distant galaxy cluster, MOO J2342.0+1301, which is located 7.7 billion light-years away and is hundreds…
VLT Survey Telescope Image of the Carina Nebula
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope captured this new image of the Carina Nebula, a huge stellar nursery lying about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation…
Saturn-Like Rings May Have Formed Solar System’s Moons
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
GRAIL Generates High Resolution Gravity Field Map of the Moon
New data from NASA’s Ebb and Flow probes was used to generate a high-resolution gravity field map of the moon, showing that the moon’s gravity…
Astronomers Identify a New Kind of Galaxy, “Green Bean Galaxies”
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has been identified as part of a new class of galaxies…
Impact May Have Deformed Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
One of the strangest moons in the Solar System is Saturn’s Iapetus, which features an enormous equatorial mountain ridge and spiky belt that rises 12…
Herschel and Keck Reveal Previously Unseen Starburst Galaxies
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomers characterized 767 previously unseen starburst…