Tag Archive for 'ESA'

This Hubble image shows the 12-billion-year-old globular cluster Pismis 26. Imag credit: NASA / ESA / R. Cohen, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey / Gladys Kober, NASA / Catholic University of America.

Hubble Observes Globular Cluster Pismis 26

Nov 29, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a beautiful image of Pismis 26, an ancient globular cluster in the constellation of Scorpius. This Hubble image shows the...

This Hubble image shows DEM L 190, a young supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S. Kulkarni / Y. Chu.

Hubble Spots Colorful Supernova Remnant in Large Magellanic Cloud

Nov 28, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The new Hubble image shows sheets and filaments of debris from a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby, small...

This image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. The color image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer and ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA / JPL-Caltech.

Astronomers Release Breathtaking New View of Orion Nebula

Nov 24, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The famous Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye as a fuzzy patch surrounding the star Theta Orionis in the Hunter’s Sword, below Orion’s belt. This...

This illustration shows what WASP-39b could look like, based on the current understanding of the planet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / J. Olmsted, STScI.

Webb Reveals Atmospheric Composition of Hot-Saturn WASP-39b

Nov 22, 2022 by News Staff

While the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and other space telescopes previously have revealed isolated ingredients of the atmosphere of WASP-39b,...

This artist’s illustration emphasizes the shape of the stellar halo surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: Melissa Weiss / Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics.

Milky Way’s Stellar Halo is Oblong and Tilted, Astronomers Say

Nov 21, 2022 by News Staff

Accounting for approximately 1% of the total stellar mass, the stellar halo — the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the Galactic disk — plays...

Two galaxies in the Arp-Madore 417-391 system (right) form a ring shape, which is narrow and blue, and the cores of the two galaxies form a bulge on the ring’s side. Two smaller spiral galaxies appear left of center as well as a few stars. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Dalcanton.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Peculiar Galaxy Merger

Nov 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

This system of two massive galaxies — located in the southern constellation of Eridanus — is called Arp-Madore 417-391. Two galaxies in the...

GLASS-z12 is captured in this Webb image of the outer regions of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / T. Treu, UCLA.

Webb Discovers Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxies in Early Universe

Nov 17, 2022 by News Staff

The two newfound galaxies, dubbed GLASS-z12 and GLASS-z10, existed approximately 350 and 450 million years after the Big Bang. GLASS-z12 (redshift of 12.5)...

The protostar IRAS 04368+2557, shown in this Webb image, is embedded within LDN 1527, a cloud of material that is feeding its growth. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / J. DePasquale, STScI.

Webb Sees Hourglass-Like Nebula around Young Protostar

Nov 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details surrounding the dark...

A spiral-shaped dust storm is visible in this image taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) imager on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. This image, taken on May 26, 2019, depicts the formation of a spiral shape whose main arm is approximately 2,000 km in length. A granular pattern of dust cells is visible in the storm, formed by a process called closed-cell convection. This type of convection is also responsible for some cloud patterns on Earth. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin.

Martian Springtime Dust Storms Churn Up Surprisingly Earth-Like Cloud Patterns: Study

Nov 16, 2022 by News Staff

Using images obtained by two orbiting spacecraft, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express, planetary researchers analyzed textured...

This Hubble image shows the dense core CB 130-3. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / STScI / C. Britt / T. Huard / A. Pagan.

Hubble Spots Carbon-Chain-Rich Molecular Cloud

Nov 14, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a detailed photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the orange molecular cloud CB 130-3. This Hubble image shows...

This image, taken by the Near-Infrared Camera aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, displays countless stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte as well as dozens of background galaxies. The image includes 0.9-micron light shown in blue, 1.5-micron in cyan, 2.5-micron in yellow, and 4.3-micron in red. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / K. McQuinn, Rutgers University / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Focuses on Isolated Dwarf Galaxy

Nov 10, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The new image of the dwarf irregular galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte demonstrates the remarkable ability of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to...

A multiply imaged supernova in the archival Hubble imaging of the Abell 370 galaxy-cluster field. Image credit: Chen et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05252-5.

Hubble Observes Early Phases of Supernova in Early Universe

Nov 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered core-collapse supernova, or Type II supernova, seen at a lookback time of approximately 11.5 billion years, is strongly lensed by...

An artist’s impression of the white dwarfs WD J2147-4035 and WD J1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres. WD J2147-4035 is extremely red and dim, while WD J1922+0233 is unusually blue. Image credit: Mark Garlick / University of Warwick.

Planetary Debris Spotted around 11-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf

Nov 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

WD J2147-4035, an 11-billion-year-old white dwarf located 91 light-years away in the constellation of Grus, is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals,...

This Hubble image shows NGC 7038, a spiral galaxy some 220 million light-years away in the constellation of Indus. The color image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Jones / G. Anand / L. Shatz.

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on NGC 7038

Nov 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 7038. This Hubble image shows NGC 7038, a spiral...

An artist’s concept of the Gaia BH1 binary system. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / Spaceengine / M. Zamani.

Dormant Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected 1,600 Light-Years Away

Nov 4, 2022 by News Staff

Gaia BH1 has a mass of 9.62 times the mass of the Sun and is orbited by a bright Sun-like star at about the same distance as our planet orbits the Sun....

An artist’s impression of a hot Jupiter in a binary stellar system. Image credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss.

Hot-Jupiter Exoplanets Slow Down Aging Process for Their Host Stars

Nov 3, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers have looked for the effects of massive, close-in planets...

This Webb image shows the highly-magnified red supergiant candidate Quyllur (white, central circle). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Diego et al., arXiv: 2210.06514.

Webb Spots Possible Red Supergiant Star in Early Universe

Nov 2, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Nicknamed Quyllur, the newly-detected red supergiant candidate is so far away that its light has taken 10.7 billion years to reach Earth. This Webb image...

This image, taken by Mars Express’ High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on April 5, 2022, shows the Terra Sirenum region on Mars. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Mars Express Sees Craters and Fractures in Terra Sirenum

Oct 31, 2022 by News Staff

This new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows a diverse region southeast of the Pickering crater...

This image shows two member galaxies, PGC 36733 (left) and PGC 36723 (right), in the Wild’s Triplet. The galaxies are a mix of pale blue and yellow in color, crossed by strands of dark red dust. A long, faint streak of pale blue joins them, extending from an arm of one galaxy and crossing the field diagonally. A small spiral galaxy, orange in color, is visible edge-on, left of PGC 36723. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Dalcanton.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Wild’s Triplet

Oct 31, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of two members galaxies of the galactic triplet Arp 248. This image...

This image of Pillars of Creation includes mid-infrared observations from Webb’s MIRI instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / Joseph DePasquale, STScI / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Sees Pillars of Creation in Mid-Infrared Light

Oct 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Webb team has released a high-resolution image of the Pillars of Creation captured by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the NASA/ESA/CSA...

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