Astronomers Spot 80 of the Oldest Galaxies
Artist rendering of Cosmos Redshift 7 said to be one of the oldest and most distant galaxies in the universe (European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser) Advancing technology is making it possible for...
View ArticleHappy 26th Birthday Hubble Space Telescope!
To celebrate the 26th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope a new image of NGC-7635 or the Bubble Nebular was released. (NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Sunday, April...
View ArticleAncient Oxygen Found; Biggest Tatooine-Like Planet Spotted; 2nd Gravitational...
Artist’s impression of the distant galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2 (NAOJ) Astronomers Find Really Really Old Oxygen in Distant Galaxy Astronomers say they have spotted some of the oldest oxygen in the universe....
View ArticleJune 2016 Science Images
NASA and the aerospace company Orbital ATK fired up its Space Launch System’s booster for its second and final test on 6/28/16 at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah. A...
View ArticleJupiter’s Auroras; Distant Universe in Detail; Severe Fire Season For Amazon
Astronomers are using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras on the poles of Jupiter. (NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)) NASA’s Hubble and Juno Probe Study Jupiter’s Auroras...
View ArticleInsight Into Planetary Evolution – Dark Matter Rare in Old Galaxies
Simulated image of the HD 106906 stellar debris disk, showing a ring of rocky planet-forming material. (Erika Nesvold/Carnegie Institution for Science) Scientists Gain New Insight into Planetary...
View ArticleResearchers Doubt the Existence of Dark Energy
Timeline of the Universe. (NASA/WMAP Science Team) According to NASA, the universe is composed of three things. About 4.6% of it is normal (visible) matter, 24% is dark matter and the remaining 71.4%...
View ArticleOctober 2015 Science Images
This is the starburst galaxy Messier 94 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in an image released 10/19/15. Within the bright ring area, also called the starburst area, new stars are being formed at a...
View ArticlePhobos May Shatter; Study: Poles Won’t Flip; Webb Space Telescope
Color image of Martian moon Phobos (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) Mars May Shatter its Largest Moon Scientists in California have found that the largest moon of Mars, Phobos, is slowly...
View ArticleZika Kills Cells Crucial to Brain Development; Did Volcanoes Cause Mars to Tilt?
In an image released on 1/18/16, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen drawing a blood meal from the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University in Sao...
View ArticleAstronomers Spot 80 of the Oldest Galaxies
Artist rendering of Cosmos Redshift 7 said to be one of the oldest and most distant galaxies in the universe (European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser) Advancing technology is making it possible for...
View ArticleHappy 26th Birthday Hubble Space Telescope!
To celebrate the 26th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope a new image of NGC-7635 or the Bubble Nebular was released. (NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Sunday, April...
View ArticleAncient Oxygen Found; Biggest Tatooine-Like Planet Spotted; 2nd Gravitational...
Artist’s impression of the distant galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2 (NAOJ) Astronomers Find Really Really Old Oxygen in Distant Galaxy Astronomers say they have spotted some of the oldest oxygen in the universe....
View ArticleJune 2016 Science Images
NASA and the aerospace company Orbital ATK fired up its Space Launch System’s booster for its second and final test on 6/28/16 at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah. A...
View ArticleJupiter’s Auroras; Distant Universe in Detail; Severe Fire Season For Amazon
Astronomers are using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras on the poles of Jupiter. (NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)) NASA’s Hubble and Juno Probe Study Jupiter’s Auroras...
View ArticleInsight Into Planetary Evolution – Dark Matter Rare in Old Galaxies
Simulated image of the HD 106906 stellar debris disk, showing a ring of rocky planet-forming material. (Erika Nesvold/Carnegie Institution for Science) Scientists Gain New Insight into Planetary...
View ArticleResearchers Doubt the Existence of Dark Energy
Timeline of the Universe. (NASA/WMAP Science Team) According to NASA, the universe is composed of three things. About 4.6% of it is normal (visible) matter, 24% is dark matter and the remaining 71.4%...
View ArticleAstronomers Create Largest 3D Map of the Universe
A slice through largest-ever three-dimensional map of the Universe. Earth can be seen on the left, and distances to galaxies and quasars are labelled by the lookback time to the objects (how long light...
View ArticleVoyager 1; Humans Peak; Distant Black Hole
JPL Fires Up Voyager 1 Thrusters after 37 Year Rest Imagine you’ve discovered a rare gem of a car that’s been tucked away in a barn for the last 37 years. The barn’s owner says it’s yours if you can...
View ArticleFirst Stars Formed in Universe 180 Million Years After Big Bang
A group of researchers led by Judd Bowman, an astronomer at Arizona State University, recently made a remarkable discovery by spotting the impressions of the earliest stars in the universe. Soon after...
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