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Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera
June 24, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly ... > full story -
Hubble Spots Interacting Galaxies in Close Encounter
June 20, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a vivid new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact, causing ... > full story -
Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole
June 20, 2013 — ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all of ... > full story -
The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy
June 18, 2013 — NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump in the night." When one telescope catches a ... > full story -
Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction
June 13, 2013 — The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW Hydrae, located 176 light-years away in ... > full story -
Stacking Up a Clearer Picture of the Universe
June 13, 2013 — Researchers have proven a new technique that will provide a clearer picture of the Universe's history and be used with the next generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometer ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Turns Up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door
June 12, 2013 — Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more ... > full story -
New Kind of Variable Star Discovered: Minute Variations in Brightness Reveal Whole New Class of Stars
June 12, 2013 — Astronomers have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on the detection of very tiny changes in brightness of stars in a cluster. The observations revealed previously unknown ... > full story -
Sunny Super-Earth? Atmosphere of Super-Earth Exoplanet Observed for Time First by Two Japanese Telescopes
June 12, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the atmosphere of super-Earth "GJ3470b" for the first time using two telescopes. This super-Earth is an exoplanet, having only about 14 times the mass of our home planet, ... > full story -
Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos
June 11, 2013 — Nearly a decade ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic ... > full story
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