A Unique View of a Solar Eclipse
By combining images from the SOHO satellite and Proba-2 satellite with ground-based images, scientists created this uniquely detailed view of a recent solar eclipse. The…
By combining images from the SOHO satellite and Proba-2 satellite with ground-based images, scientists created this uniquely detailed view of a recent solar eclipse. The…
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…
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…
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…
At a recent meeting in Naples, Italy, EU ministers have agreed to give the European Space Agency (ESA) €10.1 billion ($13 billion) over the next…
Using the Planck space telescope, scientists discovered a bridge of hot gas connecting galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401. The temperature of the gas…
This new image from Hubble shows Abell 2261, a giant elliptical galaxy located about three billion light-years away that is roughly ten times the diameter…
The combined effort of NASA’s Swift satellite, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory, and several ground-based facilities has allowed scientists to X-ray the colliding stellar…
The Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapor in a pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus known as Lynds 1544. This is the first…
Based on a new analysis of compiled data from ESA’s Venus Express, scientists have uncovered a very chilly layer high in Venus’s atmosphere with temperatures…
This new full-color XDF image offers an improved portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe and contains about 5,500 galaxies. The Hubble Ultra Deep…
Located roughly 70 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Coma Berenices, spiral galaxy NGC 4634 is seen in great detail in this new…
This new image from Hubble shows an up-close look at the center of M4 or Messier 4, a global cluster located in the constellation of…
The Planck Satellite has observed a very unique emission of radio radiation from the center of the Milky Way, moving scientists closer than ever to…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 116, which is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 60, and a…
The Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager captured an image of the second full moon of the month – known as a ‘Blue’ Moon. Europe’s…
Launched on July 5, the MSG-3 weather satellite used the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument to capture its first image of Earth….
New images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express reveal a variety of features of several impact craters and their surrounding areas on…