Astronomy

Hubble’s New Image of Our Nearest Neighbor Proxima Centauri

Shining brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image is our closest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri lies in the…

11 years ago

Comet ISON Flight Path Animation

As you can see from this animation we are going to get an excellent view of comet ISON or the…

11 years ago

Planets misaligned in exoplanet system

(Source NASA) - A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters, gas giant planets…

11 years ago

Comet ISON intact, We may still get a good show.

(Source NASA) - A new image of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some…

11 years ago

Pan-Starrs 1 Telescope images first planet without a sun

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet,…

11 years ago

Kepler-Spitzer give first look at clouds on exoplanet

For the first time we now have an idea what the clouds look like on a planet outside our own…

11 years ago

Chandra finds densest galaxy 54 million light years away.

(NASA) - Astronomers may have found the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located…

11 years ago

Communications lost, NASA Deep Impact Mission ended

Last month controllers lost contact with NASA's Deep Impact mission, several weeks were spent trying to uplink commands to reactivate…

11 years ago

Hubble Finds Largest Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter

(NASA) - The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees…

11 years ago

Voyager 1 enters interstellar space, what does it mean to us?

It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system…

11 years ago