Tag: The Universe

  • Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

    Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

    This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s full…

  • NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky

    NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky

    NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date

  • For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds

    For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds

    A study of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data on stellar pairs undergoing mutual eclipses has uncovered more than two dozen candidate exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system. This method allows the mission to locate planets it couldn’t…

  • Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral

    Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral

    In this new picture from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump).

  • NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb

    NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb

    A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory could…

  • NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble’s visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the…

  • NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

    NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

    Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing the results published…

  • NASA’s Webb Redefines Dividing Line Between Planets, Stars

    NASA’s Webb Redefines Dividing Line Between Planets, Stars

    Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain its formation that…

  • Hubble Spies an Active Spiral

    Hubble Spies an Active Spiral

    A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation…

  • NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82

    NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82

    For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82.