Hubble Image of the Week – Dwarf Galaxy Leo A
This newly released Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy Leo A, which is located roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth. At first glance this NASA/ESA Hubble…
This newly released Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy Leo A, which is located roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth. At first glance this NASA/ESA Hubble…
Using Hubble, astronomers peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of the center of the Milky Way. Peering deep into the heart of…
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers reveal a planet-forming disk in unprecedented detail, revealing a series of concentric dusty bright rings and…
By studying the spatial distribution of gamma-ray emission in the Milky Way, astronomers believe they have identified a signature of dark matter annihilation. We live…
This newly released image shows the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy. This scene, captured by ESO’s OmegaCAM on the VLT Survey Telescope, shows a lonely galaxy known as…
Using archived NASA data, researchers have discovered “super spiral” galaxies that dwarf the Milky Way and compete in size and brightness with the largest galaxies…
Newly published research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that any Earth-like planet would need a magnetic field in order to protect its atmosphere…
Astronomers are using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the NSF’s Jansky Very Large Array to learn more about galaxy…
This new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope is the sharpest view ever of the dusty disc around the close pair of aging stars IRAS…
This Hubble image reveals the final act of celestial beauty before the long fade into cosmic history. Invisibly buried in the center of this colorful…
This new ESO VLT Survey Telescope image shows the vast nebula where giant stars were born, known as RCW 106. The brightest part appears just…
This newly released Hubble image shows thousands of colorful galaxies. Peering deep into the early Universe, this picturesque parallel field observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through…
New research confirms that the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone is not centered on the black hole, but is offset; they also confirm that the…
An international team of astronomers used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in…
Newly published research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the burst detected by LIGO occurred because the two black holes lived and died…
Astronomers have completed the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to…
Astronomers have discovered a binary star system where, every 69 years, the sun disappears in a near-total eclipse that lasts for three and a half…