<p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> <em>In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place– the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.</p> <p>These dead stars
<p>NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon —
<p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded
AAVSO Alert Notice 459<br /> Monitoring of RU Peg requested for Swift observations<br /> June 6, 2012 <p>Dr. Koji Mukai (Universities Space Research Association/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) has requested AAVSO observers’ assistance
AAVSO Alert Notice 458<br /> Multiwavelength Observing Campaign on AE Aqr<br /> May 11, 2012 <p>Dr. Christopher Mauche, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and colleagues in Spain and Oman have requested AAVSO observations in
<p>Studies using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite provide new insights into the elusive origins of an important class of exploding star called Type Ia supernovae.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class=small><br
AAVSO Alert Notice 433<br /> Request for observations of GW Lib in support of HST observations<br /> March 20, 2011 <p>Dr. Paula Szkody, University of Washington, has requested our help<br /> in monitoring the