Tag Archive for 'Milky Way'

An artist’s impression of two planets orbiting Teegarden’s Star. Image credit: Institute for Astrophysics, University of Göttingen.

Two Earth-Mass Exoplanets Found in Habitable Zone around 8-Billion-Year-Old Red Dwarf

Jun 20, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) instrument...

Milky Way Collided with Dark-Matter Dominated Galaxy Less Than Billion Years Ago

Jun 18, 2019 by News Staff

According to new research led by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the collision of the recently-discovered dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 with our Milky...

An artist’s impression of a disk of cool interstellar gas surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Image credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF / S. Dagnello.

ALMA Spots Rotating Disk of Cool Hydrogen around Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Jun 7, 2019 by News Staff

There is a supermassive black hole of nearly 4 million solar masses at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. A large reservoir of hot and cooler hydrogen...

This artist’s illustration depicts a coronal mass ejection, which involves a large-scale expulsion of material, and have frequently been observed on our Sun. Image credit: NNASA / CXC / INAF / Argiroffi et al / S. Wiessinger.

Chandra Detects Huge Coronal Mass Ejection from HR 9024

Jun 6, 2019 by News Staff

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), often associated with solar flares, are the most powerful magnetic phenomena occurring on the Sun. Now, astronomers using...

Artist’s impression of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Exomoons Could Host Alien Life, Astrophysicist Says

Jun 6, 2019 by News Staff

Exomoons — natural satellites of planets outside our Solar System — could offer another clue about the pool of alien worlds that may be home...

This Spitzer image shows the Cepheus C and Cepheus B regions. The image was compiled using data from Spitzer’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS). The colors correspond with IRAC wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (cyan) and 8 microns (green), and 24 microns (red) from the MIPS instrument. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Spitzer Sees Stars and Dense Clouds in Cepheus

Jun 3, 2019 by News Staff

A large celestial mosaic from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows multiple clusters of stars and clouds of gas and dust in the constellation of Cepheus. This...

Scholz’s star flew through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago. Image credit: José A. Peñas / SINC.

Did Nearby Supernovae Induce Hominins to Walk on Two Legs?

May 30, 2019 by News Staff

Between 8 and 2 million years ago, cosmic-ray energy from one or more nearby supernovae reached Earth and pummeled the planet’s atmosphere, initiating...

This VLT image shows the reflection nebula NGC 2023. Image credit: ESO.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Snaps Beautiful Image of Reflection Nebula

May 14, 2019 by News Staff

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by its Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the reflection nebula NGC...

Merging neutron stars. Image credit: Mark Garlick, University of Warwick.

Violent Collision of Two Neutron Stars Occurred near Pre-Solar Nebula 4.6 Billion Years Ago

May 5, 2019 by News Staff

According to new research, a nearby binary neutron-star merger gave birth to 0.3% of the Earth’s heaviest elements, including gold, platinum and uranium;...

Using the MUSE, an integral-field spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, Göttgens et al discovered the remains of a nova near the center of the globular cluster Messier 22. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / F. Göttgens, Institute for Astrophysics, University of Göttingen.

Astronomers Find Ancient Nova Remnant in Messier 22

Apr 30, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

A nova is a cataclysmic event on the surface of a white dwarf star in a binary stellar system that increases the overall brightness by several orders of...

This Hubble image shows a globular cluster called Messier 75. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / F. Ferraro et al.

Hubble Observes Globular Cluster Messier 75

Apr 22, 2019 by News Staff

NASA has released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the globular cluster Messier 75. This Hubble image shows...

This incredible image of the Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark Hubble’s 29th anniversary in space. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI.

Hubble Celebrates Its 29th Anniversary with Stunning View of Southern Crab Nebula

Apr 19, 2019 by News Staff

In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers captured this colorful look at the hourglass-shaped...

Digital art by Les Bossinas, Cortez III Service Corp., 1998.

Traversable Wormholes Can Exist, But They Are Not Very Useful for Space Travel, Physicists Say

Apr 15, 2019 by News Staff

Harvard University physicist Daniel Jafferis and colleagues have shown that wormholes — theoretical portals through space-time that could create...

This image of Messier 62 is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instruments. It is based on data obtained through four filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S. Anderson et al.

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Messier 62

Apr 15, 2019 by News Staff

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of the globular cluster Messier 62. This image of Messier 62 is a composite...

This Hubble image shows the globular cluster Messier 3. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Five 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 / G. Piotto et al.

Hubble Looks at Brilliant Globular Cluster

Apr 8, 2019 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the 8-billion-year-old globular cluster Messier 3. This Hubble image shows the...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called Messier 2. The image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the ultraviolet and optical parts of the spectrum. It is based on data obtained through three filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / G. Piotto et al.

Hubble Sees Globular Cluster Messier 2

Apr 1, 2019 by News Staff

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of the globular cluster Messier 2. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope produced this composite image of the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy. Note that the center of the Galaxy is located within the bright white region to the right of and just below the middle of the image. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESA / CXC / STScI.

NASA: 360-Degree Visualization Shows Galactic Center

Mar 26, 2019 by News Staff

A new immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition visualization provides more details of what NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory sees in X-rays around...

This image of Messier 11 is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. Two 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 / P. Dobbie et al.

Hubble Focuses on Open Star Cluster Messier 11

Mar 25, 2019 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of an open star cluster called Messier 11 (also known as M11 or NGC 6705). This image of...

Color composite image of the globular cluster HP 1 obtained using the Gemini-South telescope in Chile. Image credit: Gemini Observatory / AURA / NSF / Mattia Libralato, Space Telescope Science Institute.

HP 1: One of Milky Way’s Oldest Star Clusters Discovered

Mar 25, 2019 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Gemini-South telescope has discovered one of the oldest stellar clusters in the Milky Way. The team’s results date the...

The CTB 1 supernova remnant resembles a ghostly bubble in this image, which combines new 1.5 GHz observations from the Very Large Array (orange, near center) with older observations from the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory’s Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (1.42 GHz, magenta and yellow; 408 GHz, green) along with infrared data (blue). The VLA data clearly reveal the straight, glowing trail from PSR J0002+6216 and the curved rim of the remnant’s shell. Image credit: Jayanne English, University of Manitoba / NRAO / F. Schinzel et al / DRAO / Canadian Galactic Plane Survey / NASA / IRAS.

Astronomers Find Pulsar Hurtling Through Space

Mar 22, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have spotted a pulsar hurtling through space at...

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