WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).…
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NASA Is Extending the Spitzer, Planck and Kepler Missions
NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. — Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the…
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Supernova Explosions and Black Hole Jets Scatter a Galaxy’s Star-Making Gas
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…
Read the guideCuriosity Rover to Land Near Mount Sharp on Mars in August 2012
One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have…
Read the guideAre Microbes Raining Down on Enceladus?
There’s a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn’s rings that’s full of promise, and maybe — just maybe — microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys…
Read the guideNew Surface Features Spotted on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA Dawn Spacecraft
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and…
Read the guideCassini Spotted a Wave Shaking Up One of the Jupiter’s Jet Streams
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet’s jet streams, an interaction that also takes…
Read the guideNew WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky Released by NASA
NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by…
Read the guideEmbryonic Stars Flicker in the Heart of the Orion Nebula
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel and NASA’s Spitzer space telescopes have detected surprisingly rapid changes in the brightness of embryonic stars within the well-known Orion Nebula. This…
Read the guideEnceladus and Saturn’s Rings
A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn’s rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar…
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