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The University of Arizona Astronomy News
17 Aug 2017, 20:48 UTC
For the first time, astronomers have seen atmospheric bands and waves, reminiscent of those seen in familiar gas giants like Neptune, in brown dwarfs, strange worlds that are not quite planets and not quite stars.
Scientists Solve Mystery of Blinking Brown Dwarfs
17 Aug 2017, 20:48 UTC
For the first time, astronomers have seen atmospheric bands and waves, reminiscent of those seen in familiar gas giants like Neptune, in brown dwarfs, strange worlds that are not quite planets and not quite stars.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
17 Aug 2017, 19:08 UTC
An Insider's Guide to Voyager: 1977-2017
17 Aug 2017, 19:08 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
17 Aug 2017, 19:08 UTC
Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1
17 Aug 2017, 19:08 UTC
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
17 Aug 2017, 00:00 UTC
Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts
17 Aug 2017, 00:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.
NASA’s LRO Team Wants You to Wave at the Moon
16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.
ESO Top News
16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC
Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their nickname also makes it possible for the gas to reach the central regions of the galaxies, feeding the black hole that lurks in each of them and causing it to shine brilliantly. The results appeared today in the journal Nature.
Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish
16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC
Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their nickname also makes it possible for the gas to reach the central regions of the galaxies, feeding the black hole that lurks in each of them and causing it to shine brilliantly. The results appeared today in the journal Nature.
NASA Breaking News
16 Aug 2017, 13:35 UTC
NASA’s newest astronaut candidates, a diverse dozen women and men, will participate in media interviews and a final news conference before training on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
2017 Astronaut Candidates Available for Interviews Before Training
16 Aug 2017, 13:35 UTC
NASA’s newest astronaut candidates, a diverse dozen women and men, will participate in media interviews and a final news conference before training on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
ESA Science & Technology
16 Aug 2017, 08:00 UTC
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 provides a preview of Gaia's first full-colour all-sky map, which will be unleashed in its highest resolution with the next data release in 2018.
Sneak peek of Gaia's sky in colour
16 Aug 2017, 08:00 UTC
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 provides a preview of Gaia's first full-colour all-sky map, which will be unleashed in its highest resolution with the next data release in 2018.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
15 Aug 2017, 14:20 UTC
Venus looks bland and featureless in visible light, but change the filter to ultraviolet, and Earth’s twin suddenly looks like a different planet. Dark and light areas stripe the sphere, indicating that something is absorbing ultraviolet wavelengths in the planet’s cloud tops.
NASA Studies CubeSat Mission to Solve Venusian Mystery
15 Aug 2017, 14:20 UTC
Venus looks bland and featureless in visible light, but change the filter to ultraviolet, and Earth’s twin suddenly looks like a different planet. Dark and light areas stripe the sphere, indicating that something is absorbing ultraviolet wavelengths in the planet’s cloud tops.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
14 Aug 2017, 23:29 UTC
Scientists developed new theories and 3-D simulations to explain what’s at work in the mysterious jets of energy and matter beaming from the center of galaxies at nearly the speed of light. As much as half of the jets’ energy can escape in the form of X-rays and stronger forms of radiation. Researchers showed how two different mechanisms serve to reduce about half of the energy of these jets.
