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Hubble Space Telescope News
18 Apr 2019, 14:00 UTC
Photo Release: Hubble Celebrates its 29th Birthday with Unrivaled View of the Southern Crab Nebula
18 Apr 2019, 14:00 UTC
NASA: Kepler News and Features
17 Apr 2019, 17:51 UTC
Discovery Alert: A Third Planet in Kepler-47 System
17 Apr 2019, 17:51 UTC
NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features
17 Apr 2019, 17:00 UTC
The Universe’s First Molecule Is Found at Last
17 Apr 2019, 17:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
17 Apr 2019, 15:00 UTC
How do you explore the interior of a planet without ever touching down on it? Start by watching the way the planet spins, then measure how your spacecraft orbits it — very, very carefully. This is exactly what NASA planetary scientists did, using data from the agency’s former mission to Mercury.
A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core
17 Apr 2019, 15:00 UTC
How do you explore the interior of a planet without ever touching down on it? Start by watching the way the planet spins, then measure how your spacecraft orbits it — very, very carefully. This is exactly what NASA planetary scientists did, using data from the agency’s former mission to Mercury.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
17 Apr 2019, 12:49 UTC
The newly forming stars in the tail are mysterious because processes common in large groups of galaxies should make it difficult for new stars to emerge. Most galaxies live in groups — for example, the Milky Way is a member of the Local Group, which also contains galaxies like Andromeda and the Triangulum spiral. Some galaxies reside in much larger gatherings of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies known as a galaxy cluster. The “jellyfish” galaxy ESO 137-001 is part of a cluster called Abell 3627.
A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View of NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope
17 Apr 2019, 12:49 UTC
The newly forming stars in the tail are mysterious because processes common in large groups of galaxies should make it difficult for new stars to emerge. Most galaxies live in groups — for example, the Milky Way is a member of the Local Group, which also contains galaxies like Andromeda and the Triangulum spiral. Some galaxies reside in much larger gatherings of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies known as a galaxy cluster. The “jellyfish” galaxy ESO 137-001 is part of a cluster called Abell 3627.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
16 Apr 2019, 18:22 UTC
A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
A New Signal for a Neutron Star Collision Discovered
16 Apr 2019, 18:22 UTC
A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
16 Apr 2019, 15:26 UTC
Scientists in the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) Collaboration have published a paper in Nature Astronomy journal detailing the results of their work with the VERITAS array—located at the Center for Astrophysics' Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona—to measure the smallest apparent size of stars in the night sky known to date.
Scientists Use Asteroid to Measure Smallest Star Size to Date
16 Apr 2019, 15:26 UTC
Scientists in the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) Collaboration have published a paper in Nature Astronomy journal detailing the results of their work with the VERITAS array—located at the Center for Astrophysics' Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona—to measure the smallest apparent size of stars in the night sky known to date.
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
16 Apr 2019, 06:45 UTC
Large differences in the ‘fogginess’ of the early universe were caused by islands of cold gas left behind when the universe heated up after the big bang, according to an international team of astronomers.
Variations in the ‘fogginess’ of the universe identify a milestone in cosmic history
16 Apr 2019, 06:45 UTC
Large differences in the ‘fogginess’ of the early universe were caused by islands of cold gas left behind when the universe heated up after the big bang, according to an international team of astronomers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
15 Apr 2019, 15:04 UTC
On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radardata revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.
