Hubble Image of the Week – Sidekick or Star of the Show?
This newly released Hubble image shows the patch of space just ‘beneath’ open star cluster NGC 299. This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble…
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Astronomers Estimate That The Solar Nebula Lasted 3 To 4 Million Years
By studying the remanent magnetizations in ancient meteorites, astronomers have determined that the solar nebula — the vast of disc of gas and dust that…
New Impact Craters Help Unlock Clues About Mars
Astronomers use new craters on Mars to see beneath the dust blanket and determine the underlying rock compositions and textures. Mars is a dynamic planet….
Astronomers Discover an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveal new evidence that an intermediate-mass black hole weighing 2,200 Suns is hiding at the center of the…
New ESO Image of the Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula and the Lobster Nebula. Astronomers have for a long…
Space Travel Visionaries Solve the Problem of Interstellar Slowdown
New research details how to use the radiation and gravity of the stars to decelerate a high-velocity interstellar projectile. In April last year, billionaire Yuri…
New HiRISE Image of Martian Dunes in Northern Summer
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian northern summer. This dune field formed near the base of…
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…
Hubble Image of the Week – The Calabash Nebula
This newly released Hubble image shows the Calabash Nebula, which is located 5,000 light-years away. The Calabash Nebula, pictured here — which has the technical…
New Drug Compound Halts Alzheimer’s, Appears to Reverse Some Neurological Damage
New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that levels of the tau protein can be reduced, and some of the…
NASA’s NuSTAR Reveals New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’
NASA’s NuSTAR satellite reveals new clues to why supernova SN 2014C dramatically changed in appearance over the course of a year. “We’re made of star…
Cassini Views Saturn’s Icy Moon Tethys
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft gets a closer look at one of Saturn’s icy moons (Tethys). Tethys, one of Saturn’s larger icy moons, vaguely resembles an eyeball…
Chandra Reveals Geometrical Explanation for Puzzling Differences in Behavior of Pulsars
New X-ray images from Chandra have shown distinctly different shapes for the structures around two pulsars. By studying the shape and orientation of these structures,…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Examines Possible Mud Cracks
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has examined slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the…
VISTA Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets of Orion’s Clouds
The VISTA infrared survey telescope reveals the most detailed view of Orion A molecular cloud in the near-infrared. The new image from the VISION survey…
Juno Spacecraft Image Shows Crescent Jupiter with the Great Red Spot
Using data from Juno’s JunoCam instrument, citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko created this image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot. The image…
Astronomers Discover a Cosmic Particle Accelerator in Abell 3411 and 3412
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen…
UCLA Study Shows the Moon is Older Than Previously Thought
By analyzing minerals brought back by the 1971 Apollo mission, a new study from UCLA shows that the moon is 40 million to 140 million…
