<p></p> <p>While surveying the positions of over a billion stars, ESA’s Gaia mission is also measuring their colour, a key diagnostic to study the physical properties of stars. A new image
<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20160908/PIA20917-16.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series “Star Trek,” which first aired September 8th,1966, a new infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope may
<p></p> <p>While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.
<p></p> <p>Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from X-ray light echoes ever observed. These extraordinary rings, produced by an intense flare from
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2015-15-a-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times
<p><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/15-077-nustar.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists, could
<p></p> <p>Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,
<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"></p> <p>Astronomers have found an unlikely object in an improbable place: a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest galaxies known.</p> <p>Though the black hole is five times the
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>A new survey of galaxies by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is taking a plunge into the deep and uncharted waters of our cosmos. In one of the longest