New Telescope Attachment Allows Ground-Based Observations of New Worlds
Left: Light from a laser pointer is shaped into a wide and stable output using a beam-shaping diffuser. A carefully designed pattern is precisely...
Scientists Discover More About the Ingredients for Star Formation
Comparison between the stellar (top) and molecular hydrogen (bottom) distribution in very gas-rich galaxies three billion years younger than the Milky Way. Optical data...
Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon’s Interior
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the darker area at the bottom of this image.
Credit: Photo by NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterScientific Visualization Studio
Scientists have long...
Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris Disks
This artist's rendering shows a large exoplanet causing small bodies to collide in a disk of dust.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
There's no map showing all the billions...
Haumea, the Most Peculiar of Pluto Companions, Has a Ring Around It
Artist concept of Haumea, with the correct proportions of the main body and the ring. The ring is at a distance of 2287 kilometers...
Reconstructing Cassini’s Plunge Into Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is shown during its Sept. 15, 2017, plunge into Saturn's atmosphere in this artist's depiction.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its...
Devourer of Planets? Astronomers Dub Star ‘Kronos’
Sun-like star Kronos shows signs of having ingested 15 Earth masses worth of rocky planets, prompting Princeton astronomers to nickname it for the Titan...
Measurement Promises Complete Picture of Milky Way
Astronomers directly measured the distance to a region on the far side of our Milky Way Galaxy, past the Galaxy's center.
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF;...
Intense Storms Batter Saturn’s Largest Moon, Scientists Report
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behind the planet's rings. The much smaller moon Epimetheus is visible in the foreground.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Titan, the largest of...
Star Dust Helps Explain Mysterious Dimming Star
This illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting a mysterious dimming star about 1,000 light years from Earth.
Credit: Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Massimo Marengo's...
Solar Research: On the Generation of Solar Spicules and Alfvenic Waves
In the image above obtained with the NASA's spectrograph IRIS, can be seen in the bedge or limbo of the Sun the multitude of...
