VLT Views a Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart by a Black Hole
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time as a gas cloud is being ripped apart by the…
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time as a gas cloud is being ripped apart by the…
This three minute video from NASA details and explains the journey of sungrazing comets, like comet ISON, as they round the sun. Comet ISON, which…
By combining data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, scientists were able to create a comprehensive view…
A new model developed by scientists at NASA shows that eccentric rings in debris disks can form without planets. Many young stars known to host…
New research presented at the 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves suggests that stellar collisions between massive stars with masses between 200 and 300…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope, astronomers studied NGC 2392 and two other planetary nebulas with hot gas in their center,…
Using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Hinode spacecraft, researchers reveal that the Sun’s atmosphere has a magnetic field about ten times weaker…
In a newly published study, NASA IBEX data reveals the never before seen boundaries of the tail of the heliosphere, the heliotail. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary…
New research presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division suggests that coronal loops of the Sun are tapered, being wider…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers observed the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core, revealing in superb detail the filamentary…
With the help of the Herschel Space Observatory, an international team of scientists discovered six ultra-cold debris disks, which are missing the characteristic dust that…
A new study suggests that Andromeda crashed into the Milky Way roughly 10 billion years ago, explaining the observed structure of the two galaxies and…
Using two instruments known as SINFONI and UVES, astronomers were able to view a distant galaxy feeding on nearby gas, revealing how the galaxy itself…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and Atacama Millimeter and Submillimeter Array, researchers have discovered a vast reservoir of unexpectedly cold molecules and dust from the…
Researchers from the University of Exeter are presenting their first results from the analysis of eight ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets, finding that winds and clouds play…
In a newly published study, researcher Iannis Dandouras details the discovery of plasmaspheric wind, providing the first conclusive proof of the existence this wind first…
New research from scientists at the University of St Andrews investigates the effect of the magnetic fields of M dwarf stars on potentially habitable Earth-like…
Using the Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope, astronomers were able to estimate the true size and mass of super-Earth HD 97658b for…