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This image of the Carina Nebula reveals the dynamic cloud of interstellar matter and thinly spread gas and dust as never before; the massive stars in the interior of this cosmic bubble emit intense radiation that causes the surrounding gas to glow; by contrast, other regions of the nebula contain dark pillars of dust cloaking newborn stars. Image credit: ESO / J. Emerson / M. Irwin / J. Lewis.

VISTA Sees Carina Nebula in Infrared Light

Aug 29, 2018 by News Staff

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has taken a spectacular infrared image of the Carina...

This Hubble image shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Sees Spectacular Cosmic Eye: NGC 3918

Aug 27, 2018 by News Staff

NASA has released a beautiful photo snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the planetary nebula NGC 3918. This Hubble image shows the planetary...

The distribution of satellite galaxies orbiting a computer-simulated galaxy, as predicted by the Lambda-cold-dark-matter cosmological model. Ultra-faint satellites are amongst the most ancient galaxies in the Universe; they began to form when the Universe was only about 100 million years old. Image credit: Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University / Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Milky Way’s Ultra-Faint Satellites are Some of Universe’s Oldest Galaxies, Astronomers Say

Aug 24, 2018 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from the United States and the United Kingdom has found evidence that Milky Way’s faintest satellites — including dwarf galaxies...

This artist’s impression shows how the gas giant exoplanet inside the disc of Beta Pictoris may look. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO.

Astronomers Measure Mass of Young Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

Aug 24, 2018 by News Staff

A duo of astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands has deduced the mass of Beta Pictoris b from the motion of its parent star, which lies 63...

Wide field image of the Leo I galaxy group. BST1047+1156 is located at the center of the white box. Image credit: Mihos et al, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aad62e.

Astronomers Discover Possible New Member of Leo I Galaxy Group

Aug 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Chris Carr and colleagues have spotted a very diffuse extragalactic cloud in a group of galaxies...

NGC 3199 appears to plough through the star-studded sky like a ship through stormy seas. Image credit: ESO.

NGC 3199: Crescent-Shaped Nebula Shines in New VST Photo

Aug 21, 2018 by News Staff

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured an amazing new photo of a nebula known as NGC 3199. NGC 3199 appears...

An artist’s impression of a water-world exoplanet. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Water-World Exoplanets Are Common in Milky Way Galaxy, Astronomers Say

Aug 20, 2018 by News Staff

A research team led by Harvard University astronomer Li Zeng has shown that water is likely to be a major component of extrasolar planets which are between...

Hubble’s ultraviolet vision opens a new window on the evolving Universe, tracking the birth of stars over the last 11 billion years back to the cosmos’ busiest star-forming period, about 3 billion years after the Big Bang. This new image from Hubble encompasses a sea of approximately 15,000 galaxies -- 12,000 of which are starburst galaxies -- widely distributed in time and space. Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Oesch, University of Geneva / M. Montes, University of New South Wales.

New Hubble Image Reveals 15,000 Galaxies Deep in Universe

Aug 20, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers have assembled one of the most comprehensive portraits yet of the Universe’s evolutionary history. Hubble’s ultraviolet vision opens a...

This image shows the newly-discovered galaxy cluster with the central giant elliptical galaxy, which harbors a supermassive black hole. Image credit: Taweewat Somboonpanyakul.

New Massive Galaxy Cluster Discovered

Aug 17, 2018 by News Staff

Dr. Michael McDonald of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and co-authors have uncovered a new massive cluster of galaxies hiding...

An artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst’s jet. Image credit: S. Wiessinger / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Pulses Exhibit Time-Reversible Wavelike Structures

Aug 17, 2018 by News Staff

A research team headed by College of Charleston astrophysicist Jon Hakkila has discovered a peculiarity in the light curves of astronomical phenomena called...

Artist’s impression of a sunset on the ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b. Image credit: Denis Bajram.

Astronomers Find Iron and Titanium in Atmosphere of Ultrahot Jupiter

Aug 16, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have detected atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of KELT-9b, a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a star in the constellation Cygnus, about...

Computer simulation of a region of the Universe wherein a low-density ‘void’ (dark blue region at top center) is surrounded by denser structures containing numerous galaxies (orange/white). Image credit: TNG Collaboration.

Early Universe’s Most Opaque Place Contained Relatively Little Matter: Study

Aug 15, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers have known that roughly 12 billion years ago, the gas in deep space was much more opaque than it is now in some regions, although the opacity...

An artist’s impression of a habitable exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf. Image credit: Sci-News.com / NASA.

Stellar Flares: Life Givers or Sterilizers of Worlds?

Aug 15, 2018 by James Romero

Have Carl Sagan and astrobiologists been too hard on stellar flares? A new study imagines an alternative scenario where they power photosynthesis around...

$Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the Universe. True to their name, neutron stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons. Duer et al suggest that some properties of neutron stars may be influenced not only by their multitude of densely packed neutrons, but also by a substantially smaller fraction of protons -- positively charged particles that make up just 5% of a neutron star. This is an illustration of a neutron star. Image credit: Casey Reed, Penn State University.$