Hubble Sees Oldest Galaxies Yet
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers announced Dec. 12 they have seen further back in time than ever before and have uncovered a previously unseen population…
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Looking at How Wide Binary Stars Form
Using computer simulations, scientists from the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at the University of Hawaii are shedding light on a question that has challenged astronomers for…
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Abell 520’s Core May Not Harbor Dark Matter After All
Now you see it, now you don’t. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an…
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Astronomers Spot Candidate for Most Distant Known Galaxy
By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature’s own natural “zoom lenses” in space, astronomers have set a new…
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Fast Food at the Center of the Galaxy
Deep in the heart of the spiral Milky Way galaxy, a hot vortex of matter swirls around a black hole more than a million times as…
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Born-Again Star Foretells Possible Fate of the Sun
Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate…
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Stellar Explosion Aftershock Imaged by Space Observatories
The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from…
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Ghostly Face Glows in X-Rays
The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays, as seen by ESA’s XMM-Newton space…
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Stray Intergalactic Stars Responsible for Skywide Infrared Glow
A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. It…
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Seen Flaring Up by NASA’s NuSTAR
NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked…
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