Scale and compass image for Kiso 5639. Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)
Fireworks shows are not just confined to Earth's skies. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular fireworks display in a small, nearby galaxy, which resembles...
An image of a small section (0.4%) of the UDS field. Most of the objects in the image are very distant galaxies, observed as they were over 9 billion years ago. In the full image, 250,000 galaxies have been...
Washington University in St. Louis cosmochemists show that hot, rocky exoplanets with steam atmospheres may vaporize some of their rocky elements and then lose them to space, changing the bulk composition of the planet. Credit: NASA
The media often imply...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighbourhood — NGC 1569, a small galaxy located about eleven million light-years away in theconstellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).
This...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7-8, 2016, showcasing the turbulence caused by combative magnetic forces on the sun. This spinning cloud of solar material is part...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the "big four" dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt region at the edge of our solar system. The findings are detailed in the paper...
A visualisation of galaxies floating on the curved spacetime sea from the simulations of the US group. Credit: Image courtesy James Mertens
Research teams in Europe and the USA -- including a cosmologist from the University of Portsmouth -- have begun...
Gas and stars in a slice of the EAGLE simulations at the present day. The intensity shows the gas density, while the color encodes the gas temperature. Researchers used the EAGLE simulations to predict the rate at which gravitational...
Metals in space crops.Credit: Image courtesy of Wageningen University and Research Centre
Scientists of Wageningen University & Research centre are working on growing crops on Mars and moon soil simulants. Just like the real Martian and moon soil these contain...
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is home to an unusual canyon system that’s far longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon.
The inset above magnifies a portion of the eastern limb in the global view of Charon at left, imaged...
In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft in July 2016, astronomers used ESO's Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images of Jupiter using the VISIR instrument. They are part of a campaign to create...
