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This image shows the megamaser galaxy LEDA 58817, which lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 370 million light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Spots Cosmic Megamaser

Dec 26, 2016 by News Staff

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the megamaser galaxy LEDA 58817. This image shows the megamaser galaxy...

This Hubble image shows NGC 248, a nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The data used in this image were taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / K. Sandstrom, University of California, San Diego / SMIDGE Team.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 248

Dec 21, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular image of NGC 248, a glowing pink nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This Hubble image...

ESA’s Swarm satellites have led the discovery of a jet stream in the liquid iron part of Earth’s core about 1,870 miles beneath the surface. In addition, Swarm data show that this jet stream is speeding up. Image credit: ESA.

Researchers Discover Jet Stream in Earth’s Molten Iron Core

Dec 20, 2016 by News Staff

A jet stream within the Earth’s core has been discovered by researchers using data from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission. ESA’s Swarm satellites have...

This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4707, which lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, about 22 million light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Nearby Spiral

Dec 19, 2016 by News Staff

The Hubble team has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the bright spiral galaxy NGC 4707. This image shows the...

This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy IC 5201, which lies in constellation of Grus, approximately 35.5 million light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Observes Barred Spiral Galaxy IC 5201

Dec 12, 2016 by Natali Anderson

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an incredibly detailed image of IC 5201, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Grus. This Hubble image...

Color composite of Phobos taken with TGO’s CaSSIS camera on November 26, 2016. The observation was made at a distance of 4,785 miles (7,700 km). To create the final color image, two images were taken through each of the four color filters of the camera -- panchromatic, blue-green, red and infrared -- and then stitched together and combined to produce the high-resolution composite. Two of the color filters used by CaSSIS lie outside the wavelength response of the human eye, so this is not a ‘true’ color image. However, showing the data as a color representation can reveal details of the surface mineralogy. Different colors are clearly seen, with the bluest part in the direction of the large crater Stickney, which is out of view over the limb to the left. Although the exact composition of the material is unknown, the color differences are thought to be caused by compositional variations on scales of hundreds of feet to several miles. Image credit: ESA.

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Snaps Color Image of Phobos

Dec 11, 2016 by News Staff

ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has sent back its first color image of Phobos, the larger and inner of the two natural satellites of Mars. Color...

This map of dark matter was obtained from data from the KiDS survey, using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope. It reveals an expansive web of dense (light) and empty (dark) regions. This image is one out of five patches of the sky observed by KiDS. The invisible dark matter is seen rendered in pink, covering an area of sky around 420 times the size of the full Moon. This image reconstruction was made by analyzing the light collected from over 3 million galaxies more than 6 billion light-years away. The observed galaxy images were warped by the gravitational pull of dark matter as the light traveled through the Universe. Some small dark regions, with sharp boundaries, appear in this image. They are the locations of bright stars and other nearby objects that get in the way of the observations of more distant galaxies and are hence masked out in the map as no weak-lensing signal can be measured in these areas. Image credit: Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration / H. Hildebrandt & B. Giblin / ESO.

Deep Space Images Shed More Light on Dark Matter

Dec 7, 2016 by News Staff

An international research team led by Dr. Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory and Dr. Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the highly inclined spiral galaxy NGC 4388. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Captures Spectacular Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 4388

Dec 5, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a colorful photo of NGC 4388, an active spiral galaxy at the core of the Virgo Cluster. This image from the...

This Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 4696. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Fabian.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Hidden Depths of NGC 4696

Dec 1, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of NGC 4696, an unusual looking galaxy with a bright core wrapped in a system...

This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 3583. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Views Dwarf Galaxy IC 3583

Nov 28, 2016 by News Staff

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 3583, which lies in the constellation of Virgo, approximately 27.8 million light-years away. This...

Artist's impression of the Schiaparelli lander after the parachute has been deployed. Image credit: ESA / ATG Medialab.

Schiaparelli Crash Caused by Sensor Malfunction, ESA Experts Say

Nov 24, 2016 by News Staff

The crash of the ExoMars Schiaparelli test lander, also known as Entry, descent, and landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), last month was caused by a sensor...

This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows NGC 3274, a barred spiral galaxy about 21 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy PGC 213714 is also visible on the upper right of the frame, located much further away from us. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Calzetti.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 3274

Nov 21, 2016 by Natali Anderson

NASA has released a stunning photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 3274, a relatively faint galaxy in the constellation of Leo. This...

This Hubble image shows the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4789A. The image also reveals numerous other galaxies, far more distant, that appear as fuzzy shapes spread across the image. The colors in this image have been deliberately exaggerated to emphasize the mix of blue and red stars. The blue stars are bright, hot and massive stars that have formed relatively recently, whereas the red stars are much older. The presence of both tells us that stars have been forming in this galaxy throughout its history. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Snaps Breathtaking Image of Little-Known Dwarf Galaxy

Nov 14, 2016 by News Staff

NGC 4789A, a small galaxy approximately 14 million light-years away, is the subject of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the lenticular galaxy NGC 1222. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 1222

Nov 7, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this incredible image of NGC 1222, a large lenticular galaxy with a starburst nucleus. This image from...

On November 1, HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Schiaparelli lander, gaining the first color view of the site since the lander’s Oct. 19 arrival. These cutouts from the observation cover three locations where parts of Schiaparelli reached the ground: the lander module itself in the upper portion, the parachute and back shell at lower left, and the heat shield at lower right. The heat shield location was outside of the area covered in color. The scale bar of 32.8 feet (10 m) applies to all three cutouts. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona.

New HiRISE Image Shows Schiaparelli Crash Site in Color

Nov 4, 2016 by News Staff

The latest image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows parts of ESA’s ExoMars...

Asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of our planet. This is an artist’s impression of an asteroid. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.

2016 TB57: Astronomers Identify 15,000th Near-Earth Asteroid

Oct 31, 2016 by News Staff

An international effort to find and catalogue the multitude of so-called near-Earth asteroids has reached a milestone: 15,000 discovered — with many...

This Hubble image shows the central region of the Crab Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com / M. Weisskopf, Marshall Space Flight Center.

Spectacular New Hubble Image Reveals Crab Nebula’s Pulsing Heart

Oct 31, 2016 by News Staff

A stunning new image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the ‘pulsing heart’ of one of the most beautiful and well-studied objects...

Artist’s impression of the Schiaparelli module on the surface of Mars. Image credit: ESA / ATG Medialab.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Takes Closer Look at Schiaparelli Crash Site

Oct 28, 2016 by News Staff

An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveals further details of the...

This Chandra image shows the location in the elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 of a remarkable source that dramatically flares in X-rays unlike any ever seen. Low, medium, and high-energy X-rays are colored red, green, and blue. Image credit: NASA / CXC / UA / J. Irwin et al.

Two Mysterious X-ray Sources Spotted in Nearby Elliptical Galaxies

Oct 25, 2016 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers have found a pair of remarkable sources that dramatically flare in...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular cluster NGC 362. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 362

Oct 24, 2016 by Natali Anderson

In this new image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of NGC 362, a globular star cluster located approximately 27,000 light-years...

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