NuSTAR Helps Solve Forty-Year-Old Neutron Star Mystery
Astronomers may have solved a 40-year-old mystery surrounding a neutron star in the “Rapid Burster” system. Scientists observing a curious neutron star in a binary…
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Hubble Image of the Week – NGC 4861
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 4861, which is located 30 million light-years away. The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs),…
Hitomi Mission Discovers a Quiet Space in the Perseus Cluster
The Hitomi X-ray Observatory has discovered something quite serene: calm at the heart of the Perseus cluster. Scientists from the international Hitomi mission report July…
Hubble Telescope Views Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers view vivid auroras on the poles of Jupiter. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known…
Moon Village – How to Build a Permanent Base Station on the Moon
This eight minute video details Jan Woerner’s plan to build up a permanent base station on the Moon. Jan Woerner, Director General of the European…
Dying Star Kohoutek 4-55 Offers a Glimpse of Our Sun’s Future
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…
Hubble Views the Young Star HBC 1
Surrounded by dust, this new Hubble image shows the young forming star known as HBC 1. The star is in an immature and adolescent phase…
XMM-Newton Reveals High-Speed Winds Around a Supermassive Black Hole
ESA’s XMM-Newton reveals that winds around a supermassive black hole located 800 million light-years from Earth are moving at 23,000–33,000 km/s, about 10% the speed…
Hubble Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 4845
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, which is located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The…
NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Celebrates 20 Years of Science
ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory celebrates twenty years of space-based science. After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,…
Hubble Image of the Week – Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2768
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2768, which is located 60 million light years away. Like a lighthouse in the fog the…
Mars Express Image of the Rim of the Schiaparelli Crater
This image from ESA’s Mars Express features the small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin. All around is evidence for…
ESA’s Mars Express Sheds New Light on the Red Planet’s Rare Aurora
Using 10 years of data from Mars Express, scientists have for the first time combined remote sensing observations of localized ultraviolet aurora with in situ…
Cassini Reveals the Diverse Hemisphere of Enceladus
This new Cassini image helps reveal the different features of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, the terrain is covered…
Hubble Reveals Some of the Earliest Known Galaxies
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies – galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
Hubble Image of the Week: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4639
This newly released Hubble image shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4639. NGC 4639 is a beautiful example of a type of galaxy known as a…
Entranced by a Transit – Cassini Views Dione as it Crosses the Face of Saturn
The Cassini Spacecraft views the moon Dione as it transits Saturn. Saturn’s moon Dione crosses the face of the giant planet in this view, a…
Newly Released Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 96
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of…