Hubble Image of the Week: A Spiral Galaxy’s Brights and Darks
This newly released Hubble image shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 613. Ribbons of dust festoon the galaxy NGC 613 in this new image from the…
This newly released Hubble image shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 613. Ribbons of dust festoon the galaxy NGC 613 in this new image from the…
This newly released image from the International Space Station shows the Nile River at night. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, recently past the halfway mark of…
New Horizons gives astronomers a better view of the rich color variations of Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft continues to deliver data to astronomers, revealing new images and much more about the dwarf planet Pluto. The newest high-resolution images…
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal in great detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about…
Remember to take a look at this weekend’s supermoon eclipse; if you don’t you will have to wait until 2033 for the next one. NASA…
This newly released Cassini image shows Prometheus and Pandora hidden in Saturn’s rings. Prometheus (53 miles or 86 kilometers across) and Pandora (50 miles or…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 3521, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away. This new image of the spiral galaxy…
The latest images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show breathtaking views of Pluto’s majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and haunting low-lying hazes, and…
Using ultraviolet data from GALEX and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal new details about merging black holes. Entangled by gravity and destined to merge,…
NASA’s Cassini Mission reveals a global ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Researchers found the magnitude of the moon’s very slight wobble,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of Earth and the moon as they crossed the sun. Just before the moon entered the shot, Earth blocked…
NASA is testing thrusters propelled by green propellants that can provide better performance without the toxicity while helping to lower costs by eliminating infrastructure needed…
This newly released Cassini image shows that the night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. We know that shadows are darker areas…
This newly released Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 3921. It is known today that merging galaxies play a large…
A newly released image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows petrified sand dunes on the surface of Mars. Some of the dark sandstone in an area…
Newly downlinked images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features on Pluto. New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New…
Using data from the MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists reveal new insights about Mercury. The first measurements of Mercury’s movements from a spacecraft orbiting the planet reveal…