Eagle Nebula:A star-making region famous for its space pillars appears in this infrared view from Spitzer. Green denotes cooler dust, including the pillars seen in the center. Red represents hotter dust thought to have been warmed by the explosion of a massive star about 8,000 to 9,000 yea...
1993, thespace shuttle Endeavourferried a crew of seven to fix Hubble during five days of spacewalks. Two new cameras, including the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2), which later took many of Hubble's most famous photos, were installed during the fix. In December 1993, the...
Without more data and analysis, it is difficult to say with certainty what the future trajectory of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be. However, the close approach of the comet provides a unique opportunity for astronomers to study its orbit and behavior, helping to better understand the dynamics of c...
images, viewed by visitors through a giant window, will give the impression of looking straight on to the alien, Martian landscape.Man's quest to chart the universe dates back to the 17th century when astronomers and physicists such as Galileo drew images of space seen through their telescopes...
Or has it? This is the question that still disturbs many astronomers. Probably the first concentrated effort to establish communications with life on other worlds had its beginnings in 1959. The aforementioned Dr. Drake proposed to his superiors that they use the National Radio Astronomy Observatory...
A distant galaxy has created four images of a supernova even further away, via gravitational lensing, that have been captured for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The “Einstein cross” pattern forms as light from the distant super...
NASA spacecraft have captured a number of distant images of Earth, including a famous shot from billions of miles away. Here's our humble planet seen from deep space.
The Chinese astronomers saw several figures in what is modern-day Cassiopeia. Kappa, Eta, and Mu Cassiopeiae formed a constellation called the Bridge of the Kings; when seen along with Alpha and Beta Cassiopeiae, they formed the great chariot Wang-Liang. ...
Scientists Spotted Evidence of an Unseen Universe. Black Hole Radiation May Have Shaped Our Universe Everything We Knew About the Cosmos Might Be Wrong Singularities Could Be Doorways to New Realities Our Universe Formed Water Earlier Than We Thought ...
The Orion constellation is named after a hunter in Greek mythology. Orion is often depicted in star maps as either facing the charge of Taurus, the bull, or pursuing the Pleiades sisters, represented by the famous open cluster. He is also depicted as chasing after the hare (constellation Lepu...