Hubble Finds Mysterious Replenishment of Water Vapor on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope You would think that living half-a-billion miles from the Sun would be no place to call…
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‘Double’ Galaxy Mystifies Hubble Astronomers – “We Were Really Stumped”
Galaxy Cluster’s Gravity Produces Mirror Images of Distant Galaxy Behind It Gazing into the universe is like looking into a funhouse mirror. That’s because gravity…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Explore Forming Planetary Systems
Researchers will observe more than a dozen protoplanetary systems to gather data about their inner disks – where Earth-like planets may be forming What was…
“No One Has Ever Seen This Before” – Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Accelerating
The Winds at the Outer Edge Are ‘Winning the Race’ in This Enormous Storm System Listen up, race fans! The innermost lane no longer has…
“Dead” Galaxies Mysteriously Ran Out of Fuel To Make Stars in the Early Universe
Hubble Finds Early, Massive Galaxies Running on Empty “Live fast, die young” could be the motto of six early, massive, “dead” galaxies that ran out…
Supernova Requiem: Rerun of Massive Blast From Exploding Star Expected To Appear in 2037
Giant Galaxy Cluster Magnifies the Light from a Distant Supernova and Splits It into Multiple Images People over the centuries haven’t been shy about making…
Doomed Celestial Visitor May Have Been Piece of Prehistoric Comet
Comet Atlas May Have Been a Blast From the Past When our very early ancestors were colonizing the Nile River Valley, 5,000 years ago at…
Mapping the Universe’s Earliest Structures and Dark Matter Distribution With COSMOS-Webb
This ambitious program will study half a million galaxies in a field the size of three full Moons. Peering deeply into a huge patch of…
Major Milestone for NASA’s Revolutionary Roman Space Telescope
The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just successfully completed the…
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Oxygen Found on the Frozen World Is Linked to Sublimating Surface Ice Though larger than the blistering planet Mercury, the Jovian moon Ganymede is no…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System
Researchers will take stock of the dust in the debris disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris. Planetary systems are very busy places. In addition…
Stunning First Images From Rebooted Hubble: Bizarre “Oddball” Galaxies
These two peculiar galaxies are part of a program to survey oddball galaxies scattered across the sky. These early snapshots demonstrate Hubble’s return to full…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Look Back in Time, Use Quasars to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe
Looking back in time, Webb will see quasars as they appeared billions of years ago Outshining all the stars in their host galaxies combined, quasars…
Cosmic Mystery Deepens: Oddball “See-Through” Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter
Precise Distance to Galaxy Bolsters Missing Dark Matter Claim What if oceanographers found the “tip” of an iceberg and nothing else? Mysteriously missing was the…
Hubble Space Telescope’s Payload Computer Halts – NASA Operations Underway To Restore
NASA is working to resolve an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. The computer halted on Sunday, June 13, shortly after…
Hubble Views Magnificent Lopsided Galaxy NGC 2276
The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. A bright hub of older yellowish stars normally lies…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments
The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars Spectacular supernova explosions have been known to shape the…
Magnetic Monsters: Hubble Tracks Down Location of Mysterious Radio Signals From Intergalactic Space
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
