Spitzer Discovers a Young Stellar System That “Blinks” Every 93 Days
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a young stellar system that “blinks” every 93 days. This is the fourth example of…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a young stellar system that “blinks” every 93 days. This is the fourth example of…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers observed gas emissions from Comet ISON, estimating that ISON is emitting about 1 million kilograms of what is most…
Astronomers used the Very Large Array radio telescopes to track the motions of the gas near radio Source I in the Orion Nebula for over…
New research presented at this year’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society suggests that NGC 6334 is forming stars at a more rapid pace than…
New images from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project capture the birth and death of stars in the lesser-known areas at the outer…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
The Herschel Space telescope has discovered a massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was roughly 3 billion years old. The…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this new image of Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736, which is located about 17 million light-years away. How…
By using a collection of authentic PAH spectra, coupled with algorithm-driven, blind-computational analyses, astrophysicists are able to interpret previously unknown infrared emissions from polycyclic aromatic…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are taking a closer look at exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters, revealing a wide range of climates, raging winds…
A team of astronomers has found some of the youngest stars ever seen, giving scientists a window into the earliest and least understood phases of…
This NASA image of the day shows the star-forming region called W5. Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA’s Spitzer…
A newly published study details a mysterious infant star, designated LRLL 54361, that unleashes strobe-like flashes of light every 25.34 days. Two of NASA’s great…
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers observed an unusual protostar that periodically emits infrared light bursts, becoming 10 times brighter every 25.34 days,…
By using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to simultaneously view the brown dwarf planet 2MASSJ22282889-431026, a team of astronomers has created a…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of Zeta Ophiuchi, a star that is traveling at 54,000 mph and is about six times hotter, eight…
A team of astronomers reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to further examine whether the star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b,…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder used to measure the expansion rate of the universe, as well as…