Left: Optical image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Right: SOFIA image of Jupiter demonstrating the variation in its brightness temperature with latitude.…
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In this illustration, a black hole pulls material off a neighboring star and into an accretion disk. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the upper right portion of the…
A futuristic technique conceptualized by Stanford University scientists could empower astronomical imaging far more advanced than what is presently possible. Credit: Alexander Madurowicz A futuristic…
[embedded content] What’s Up for May? The planets of dusk and dawn, a lunar eclipse, and the Coma star cluster. Sky chart showing Mercury low…
Pluto 180° Longitude. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute) A…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy M99, which is approximately 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA,…
View of the gamma-ray sky. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Researchers from The Australian National UniversityFounded in 1946, the Australian National University (ANU) is a national…
All stars, including our sun, are born from a cloud of dust and gas. This cloud can also seed planets that will orbit the star.…
This artist’s impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultracool…
Hubble Space Telescope archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters have been analyzed by an international team of astronomers, enabling them to answer five open questions…
This schematic shows the various ejecta and winds (red and purple) given off by the exploding star (left, yellow). The common-envelope disk (blue) surrounds both…
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth and casts its shadow on Earth. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Webb In Full Focus, Ready for Instrument Commissioning The alignment of NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and…
Artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star ß Pictoris. Credit: © ESO/L. Calçada For the past thirty years, astronomers have been fascinated with the star…
Dying stars’ cocoons may explain fast blue optical transients. In this animation, a cocoon surrounds the jet of a collapsing star. As this cocoon escapes…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). This…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA Researchers introduce an imaging X-ray polarimetry mission that enables new measurements of cosmic X-ray sources. Humankind…
A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the…
Hubble Space Telescope captured GAMA 526784, an ultra-diffuse galaxy that appears as a tenuous patch of light in this image. This wispy object resides in…