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On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The CME traveled at over 900 miles per second. It did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth’s magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow, causing aurora to appear on the night of September 3. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Researchers Recreate Solar Eruption in 3D

Mar 9, 2018 by News Staff

Using data from the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) satellites, solar...

An artist’s impression of FRB 110523 reaching Earth; the colors represent the burst arriving at different radio wavelengths, with long wavelengths (red) arriving seconds after short wavelengths (blue). Image credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium.

New Fast Radio Burst Detected: FRB 180301

Mar 9, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of alien civilizations, have...

This spectacular image of Arp 256 is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Arp 256: Hubble Space Telescope Sees Graceful Dance of Interacting Barred Spiral Galaxies

Mar 8, 2018 by News Staff

A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 256, a stunning system of two barred spiral galaxies in an early stage of merging. This...

ALMA and IRAM Telescopes Reveal Inner Web of Orion Nebula

Mar 7, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30-m telescope have been used to create one of the largest high-resolution...

The vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, envelopes the young star HR 4796A. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Schneider, Universe of Arizona.

Hubble Spots Vast, Complex Dust Structure around HR 4796A

Mar 7, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive dust structure — about 150 billion miles across — around HR 4796A,...

Artist’s impression of an infant star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO.

Giant Exoplanet Creates Gaps in Protoplanetary Disk around Young Star AS 209

Mar 6, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Nestled in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, approximately 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disk around the young star AS 209...

Propagation of waves through an astrophysical disk can be understood using the Schrödinger Equation. Image credit: James Tuttle Keane, California Institute of Technology.

Massive Astronomical Objects Governed by Schrödinger Equation

Mar 6, 2018 by News Staff

Surprisingly, the Schrödinger Equation — the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics — emerges while studying massive astronomical structures. Propagation...

This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble team / A. Riess, STScI & JHU.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 3972

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972, which is found in the constellation of Ursa Major. This image,...

This artist’s concept illustrates the hot-Saturn exoplanet WASP-39b. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Hubble Finds Large Amount of Water Vapor in Atmosphere of Hot-Saturn WASP-39b

Mar 2, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Saturn-mass exoplanet known as WASP-39b. By combining...

Artist’s rendering of how the first stars in the Universe may have looked. Image credit: N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation.

Astronomers Detect Signal from Universe’s Earliest Stars

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

Using the Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature (EDGES), a small ground-based radio telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in...

A new high-resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around Milky Way’s central black. Image credit: Roche et al, doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty129.

Clearest Infrared Image of Milky Way’s Central Region Unveiled

Feb 28, 2018 by News Staff

Using data from the CanariCam infrared camera on the Gran Telescopio Canarias, astronomers have created a high resolution map of the magnetic field lines...

ALMA Records Giant Stellar Flare on Proxima Centauri

Feb 27, 2018 by News Staff

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers discovered that a giant stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 4710. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Observes Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC 4710

Feb 26, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the dwarf galaxy IC 4710. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

A massive black hole can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Astronomers Find Ultramassive Black Holes in Distant Cluster Galaxies

Feb 21, 2018 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found evidence for what is likely the most massive black holes ever detected. A massive black...

DES16C2nm. Image credit: M. Smith / DES Collaboration.

Astronomers Spot Most Distant Supernova Yet: DES16C2nm

Feb 20, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have discovered a supernova that occurred 10.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was less than a quarter of its present age. DES16C2nm....

This image shows a distant and pulsating giant star known as R Sculptoris. Image credit: M. Wittkowski / ESO.

Giant Star R Sculptoris Sheds Its ‘Skin’

Feb 19, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have discovered that a giant star called R Sculptoris is surrounded by giant ‘clumps’ of stellar dust that are peeling away from the shedding...

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Shrinking Dark Spot on Neptune

Feb 19, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. This series of Hubble images taken...

Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster as seen by the ATLAS telescope. Image credit: University of Hawaii.

Astronomers Spot Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster in Flight

Feb 17, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope on Mauna Loa in Hawaii have captured images of the Tesla Roadster...

After detecting the first exoplanets in the 1990s it has become clear that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / ESO / M. Kornmesser.

NASA’s K2 Mission Discovers 95 New Extrasolar Planets

Feb 16, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths...