<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova. This observation confirms the theory that the explosion originated in a double-star
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the first time have spotted a star system that later produced an unusual supernova explosion of a white dwarf, the stripped-down
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>The spiral galaxy M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is one of our closest cosmic neighbours, just three million light-years away. Home to some forty billion stars,
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17996" target="_blank" border="0"></a></p> <p>Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA’s new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/14/image/a/format/large_web/" target="_blank" alt="Galaxy ESO 137-001"></a></p> <p>Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region of the universe. This is not the case for galaxies crammed together
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-04-c-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>The vibrant magentas and blues in this Hubble image of the barred spiral galaxy M83 reveal that the galaxy is ablaze with star formation. The galactic panorama
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Galaxies are social beasts that are mostly found in groups or clusters – large assemblies of galaxies that are permeated by even larger amounts of diffuse gas. With
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>This stunning image of M31 captured by <a href="http://subarutelescope.org" target="_blank">Subaru Telescope</a>‘s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) displays the fruits of international collaboration and technological sophistication aligned with cutting-edge science. The telescope
<p>The face-on Pinwheel spiral galaxy seen in the image below is at ultraviolet wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. Also known as M101, the galaxy lies
<p>The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational field of