Image of the Aurora Australis Over Concordia Station
A recent image taken by Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the southern lights, over Concordia Station….
A recent image taken by Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the southern lights, over Concordia Station….
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of globular star cluster Messier 107, which is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The NASA/ESA…
With a resolution that is roughly five times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument flying aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA’s High Resolution…
Using radio telescopes, a team of scientists at Keio University has discovered several intermediate-mass black hole candidates, which are considered to be the “seeds” that…
Using images taken from Cassini-Huygens, a team of researchers analyzed and mapped 52 prominent liquid methane river networks from four regions on Saturn’s moon Titan,…
Taken by ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, this popular image shows a wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), which resides about 1,350 light-years from…
Using data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard SDO, a team of scientists were able to determine the flow velocities at a depth…
With an estimated construction cost of $665M and a five-year build time, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) received approval from the National Science Board…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured an image of lightning striking within a huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere, providing scientists with a great opportunity to…
Located 33 light-years away, exoplanet candidate UCF-1.01 was discovered when astronomers studying exoplanet GJ 436b noticed slight dips in the amount of infrared light streaming…
While using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures and study very distant galaxies in the early universe, astronomers discovered a spiral galaxy that is…
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona) to create an interferometer,…
Designed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a new amplifier using titanium nitride and niobium titanium nitride…
Scientists at NASA gathered records and analyzed old Droppler data to see if they could definitively figure out the source of the deceleration of NASA’s…
While analyzing the common accretion-disk model explaining how planets form in a debris disk around the Sun, scientists found that a newly proposed disk model…
Located in the constellation of Ursa Major, 21 million light-years from Earth, the Pinwheel Galaxy is roughly 70 percent larger than our own Milky Way…
Discovered on July 14, 2011, by NASA’s Swift space telescope, Swift J1822.3–1606 is a “low-field magnetar” with short X-ray bursts. Is it a magnetar or…