STScI: Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
Astronomers analyzing Hubble images of the double star, HD 106906, have discovered a planet in a huge 15,000-year-long orbit that ...
NSO: Inouye Solar Telescope Releases First Image of a Sunspot
The world’s largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image ...
NOIRLab: Dark Energy Camera Snaps Deepest Photo yet of Galactic Siblings
Images from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) reveal a striking family portrait of our galactic neighbors — ...
NOIRLab: CK Vulpeculae seen with Gemini North
An international team of astronomers using Gemini North’s GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright ...
NSO: NSF’s National Solar Observatory Predicts a Large Sunspot for Thanksgiving
On November 18 scientists from the US National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory predicted the emergence of a new sunspot ...
STScI: NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than ...
NOIRLab: Maunakea Telescopes Confirm First Brown Dwarf Discovered by Radio Observations
A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed ...
STScI: Hubble Launches Large Ultraviolet-Light Survey of Nearby Stars
To better understand stellar evolution, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, has launched an ambitious new initiative ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers are Bulging with Data
Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way ...
NOIRLab: Looking Sharp: Most Detailed Image Yet of Famous Stellar Nursery
The Carina Nebula observed in unprecedented detail with adaptive optics ...
STScI: Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion
Disappearing Supernova in Distant Galaxy Captured in Hubble Movie ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Explore the Cores of Merging Galaxies
Researchers will study four nearby merging galaxies in unprecedented detail ...
