Tag Archive for 'NASA'

KSN 2015K’s host is the star-forming spiral galaxy 2MASX-J13315109-1044061. Image credit: Rest et al, doi: 10.1038/s41550-018-0423-2.

Kepler Captures Details of Unusual Stellar Explosion: FELT Supernova

Mar 27, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has caught a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT) in the act. KSN 2015K’s host...

This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. Image credit: NASA/ ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 5714

Mar 26, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. Image credit:...

This composite image shows the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESA / CXC / STScI.

Hubble Discovers Origin of Mysterious Gas Cloud Heading toward Milky Way

Mar 23, 2018 by News Staff

In a cosmic tug-of-war between Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way — only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

This false-color image shows the dwarf planet Ceres. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA.

Dwarf Planet Ceres Continues to Evolve and Change

Mar 16, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has detected recent changes in Ceres’ surface, revealing that the dwarf planet is a dynamic planetary body that continues to...

This image of the Great Red Spot was taken on July 10, 2017, as Juno performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was 8,648 miles (13,917 km) from the tops of the clouds of the planet. Image credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS.

Great Red Spot Getting Taller as It Shrinks, Planetary Scientists Say

Mar 15, 2018 by News Staff

Planetary scientists have noticed that Jupiter’s most distinctive feature — the Great Red Spot (GRS) — has been getting smaller in area over...

This view shows the entire sky at energies greater than 1 GeV based on five years of data from the LAT instrument on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; the most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map’s center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration.

Mysterious Gamma-Ray Signal Comes from Ancient Stars at Milky Way’s Center

Mar 14, 2018 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has discovered that an anomalous gamma-ray signal from Milky Way’s center comes from 10 billion-year-old stars,...

Astronomers Find ‘Relic Galaxy’ in Milky Way’s Backyard

Mar 14, 2018 by News Staff

NGC 1277, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus, about 220 million light-years from us, has remained essentially unchanged for the past ten...

K2-151b, one of the 12 newly-discovered planets, orbits a metal-poor M-type dwarf star every 3.84 days. The size of K2-151b -- 1.35 Earth radii -- suggests that it is likely a rocky planet. Image credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech.

Kepler Finds Twelve Exoplanets around Low-Mass Stars

Mar 13, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of twelve planets orbiting nine low-mass stars. The discovery is based on data from the...

This illustration shows three steps Professor Riess and co-authors used to measure the Hubble constant to an unprecedented accuracy, reducing the total uncertainty to 2.3%. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Field, STScI / A. Riess, STScI & JHU.

Hubble Measures Universe Expansion, Gets Intriguing Hints of ‘New Physics’

Mar 12, 2018 by News Staff

A team of U.S. astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to make a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the Universe...

In this Hubble image, we see NGC 1015 face-on, with its beautifully symmetrical swirling arms and bright central bulge. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Riess, STScl & JHU.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Stunning Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1015

Mar 12, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1015, also known as LEDA 9988, UGC 2124 and SDSS J023811.55-011907.5. In...

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...

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...

JunoCam took this image during its eleventh close flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018. Image credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott.

Juno Mission Team Reports New Results from Jupiter

Mar 8, 2018 by News Staff

New data gathered by NASA’s Juno orbiter indicate that Jupiter’s winds run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes...

This composite image, derived from data collected by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter, shows the central cyclone at Jupiter’s north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it. JIRAM collects data in infrared, and the colors in this composite represent radiant heat: the yellow (thinner) clouds are about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 degrees Celsius) in brightness temperature and the dark red (thickest) are around minus 181 degrees Fahrenheit (83 degrees Celsius). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / ASI / INAF / JIRAM.

Juno Finds Clusters of Cyclones on Jupiter’s Poles

Mar 8, 2018 by News Staff

Jupiter has no tilt as it moves, so its poles have never been visible from our planet. But in the past two years, with NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers...

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,...

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...

If the Moon has enough water, and if it’s reasonably convenient to access, future explorers might be able to use it as drinking water or to convert it into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel or oxygen to breathe. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Water is Widely Distributed across Lunar Surface, Study Suggests

Feb 26, 2018 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that water may be more prevalent on the lunar surface than previously thought. If the...

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...

This color-enhanced image shows swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter’s north temperate belt. The image was taken on February 7 at 8:42 a.m. EST (5:42 a.m. PST), as Juno performed its eleventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 5,086 miles (8,186 km) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 39.9 degrees. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin M. Gill.

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Eleventh Jupiter Flyby, Delivers New Photos

Feb 21, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Juno orbiter successfully made its eleventh flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018. This color-enhanced image shows swirling cloud formations in...

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