Herschel Image of the Vela C Region
A new image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory shows Vela C, a massive star nursery that is 2,300 light-years from the Sun…
A new image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory shows Vela C, a massive star nursery that is 2,300 light-years from the Sun…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of U Cam coughing out a spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core…
First seen by the NASA Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, the dusty disk around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652 has disappeared, leaving…
While studying the brightness of stars in near-infrared light, a team of astronomers discovered several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the…
Located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, protostar V1647 Ori gave astronomers the first direct evidence that a protostar surges in X-ray activity…
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust that is the wreckage of a star similar…
Astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding the unexplained force that influences the laws of gravity throughout space. Newly published findings narrow down the possibilities of…
To better understand how star formation and black hole activity are linked, scientists are looking back 8 to 12 billion years, a time when star…
Using data from the WISE satellite, scientists discovered an ultra-cool brown dwarf, known as BD+01 2920B, that is about 35 times more massive than Jupiter…
Data captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope show direct evidence of a supermassive black hole using its powerful gravitational forces to…
As scientists are learning more about rogue stars, they are also learning new ways to locate them. A new study from astronomers at Vanderbilt University…
Using the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a team of astrophysicists from Penn State have discovered radio emissions from a brown dwarf in the…
Using images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, scientists were able to locate an aging star releasing large amounts of dust as it begins the…
Searching for dark matter and studying conventional models for the origin and evolution of the universe has led astronomers from the University of Bonn to…
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows stellar grouping NGC 2040, also known as LH 88. These…
It seems that black holes have appetites large enough to swallow stars. Astronomers at the University of Utah and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have…
A new image of 30 Doradus was released by ESA and NASA to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 22nd anniversary. The panoramic image shows the…