VISTA Telescope Uses IR to Show Helix Nebula In New Light
The Helix Nebula in the Aquarius constellation, located some 700 light-years away from Earth, was just observed by the piercing infrared gaze of the VISTA…
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Researchers Discover Dark Galaxy 10 Billion Light Years From Earth
Using the 10-meter Keck-11 Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, a team of researchers discovered a dark dwarf galaxy 9.8 billion light-years from Earth. This is…
Adaptive Optics Will Put Gemini Twin Telescopes at the Forefront of Astronomy Again
Together, the twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory, which consists of two 8.1 m (27 ft) telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, provide almost complete coverage…
Solar Dynamics Observatory Measures Magnetic Fields on Sun’s Surface
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory helps map the sun’s magnetic fields and has been gathering data since 2010. Recent vector…
ESA’s Hershel Space Telescope Captures Incredible Views of Eagle Nebula
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Operating at Coldest Temperature Ever
In hope that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will be able to transmit data through 2025, NASA has decided they need to further reduce its power…
DARPA’s Galileo Program to Image Objects in GEO Faster
Current technology is limited for imaging objects in space since researchers use astronomical long-baseline interferometers and can only view objects from limited angles. DARPA is…
Mars Rover Opportunity to Spend Several Months at “Greeley Haven”
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now exploring a site known as “Greeley Haven.” Due to a…
Russian Mars Moon Probe Phobos-Grunt Crashed In Pacific Ocean
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and back, crashed on Earth. The ambitious project crashed into…
SN Primo Is Farthest Type Ia Supernova Discovered
Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project…
Scientists Convene to Take a Picture of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
It might sound like science-fiction, but on Wednesday January 18th, astronomers, physicists, and scientists will convene in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss a feat that would…
NASA Moves RS-25D Flight Engines to Stennis for Space Launch System
NASA has started to move its inventory of the RS-25D flight engines to the Stennis Space Center for future use in the new heavy-lift launch…
Astronomers Hypothesize that Milky Way Might Be Teeming with Planets
In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now, they estimate that the Milky Way might contain huge numbers…
Extrasolar Planetary System Suggests Our Own Isn’t That Special
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the three smallest exoplanets ever detected. All of them are smaller than Earth, and the smallest is no larger than…
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft Changes Trajectory
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
Milky Way Galaxy Has Over 100 Billion Planets
According to a recently completed statistical study by an international team of astronomers, our galaxy has at least 100 billion planets. Gravitational microlensing was used…
Three Smallest Exoplanets Found by NASA Kepler Astronomers
Kepler’s mission is to find potentially habitable planets around Earth size and smaller in a target region of the Milk Way galaxy. It’s had quite…
Black Hole Fires Cosmic Bullets of Ionized Gases
Using the Very Large Baseline Array, astronomers have managed to capture an image of a black hole firing two gigantic pockets of ionized gas at…
