This infrared image gives an unprecedented view of the southern aurora of Jupiter, as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Aug. 27, 2016.Credit: Photo courtesy of NASA.
When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, a University...
Artist’s view of star formation in the early Universe. Credit: Adolf Schaller/STScI
A new study led by University of California, Riverside astronomers casts light on how young, hot stars ionize oxygen in the early universe and the effects on the...
This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space.Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as...
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D.Lin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to discover an extremely luminous, variable X-ray source located outside the center of its parent galaxy. This peculiar object could be...
Representation of the interior of Enceladus with icy crust, ocean and solid core. ROB researchers think that Dione may also have a subsurface ocean.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, according to new data...
This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount Sharp, one of the most scenic landscapes yet visited by any...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of supernova 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526.Credit: NASA/ESA
New model explains how inspiraling dead stars can explode at a rate high enough to match the number of Type Ia supernovae seen in universe
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Artist's concept image of the hot molecular core discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Credit: FRIS/Tohoku University. The figure is a derivative work of the following sources (ESO/M. Kornmesser; NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team; NASA/ESA...
This artist's conception shows a star behind a shattered comet. One of the theories for KIC 8462852's unusual dimming is the presence of debris from a collision or breakup of a planet or comet in the star's system, creating...
An artist's impression of a millisecond pulsar and its companion. The pulsar (seen in blue with two radiation beams) is accreting material from its bloated red companion star and increasing its rotation rate. Astronomers have measured the orbital parameters...
The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft captured this image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, from an altitude of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) above the surface during the spacecraft's controlled descent. The image...
