<p></p> <p>The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, in conjunction with the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii, publicly released data yesterday from Pan-STARRS — the
<p><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/07/image/a/format/web_print/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland, have created a new master catalog of astronomical objects called the Hubble
<p></p> <p>Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered young, massive, compact galaxies whose raucous star-making parties are ending early. The firestorm of star birth has blasted
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-45-a-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>This composite Hubble Space Telescope image (click image for larger view) captures the positions of Comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/26/image/a/format/web_print/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Astronomers routinely use the crisp view of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study all kinds of intricate details in galaxy clusters. By now you would think they’ve
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Deep-space missions require precise navigation, in particular when approaching bodies such as Mars, Venus or a comet. How precise?</p> <p>It’s necessary to pinpoint a spacecraft 100 million kilometres from Earth
<p>Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible existence of a shell
<p>Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy’s star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on
<p>Amateur astronomy has a long history of discovery. In fact, it wasn’t so long ago that the amateurs had a better time of it than the professionals.</p> <p>In