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NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
05.06.13 - Astronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called hot Jupiters.
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Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
05.03.13 - These thin, blood-red shells of gas are remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago.
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Record-Setting 'Shockingly Bright' Burst
05.03.13 - A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world.
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The Day Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet
04.30.13 - NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite...
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Hubble’s View of a Changing Fan
04.26.13 - PV Cep is a favorite target for amateur astronomers because the fan-shaped nebulosity, known as GM 1-29 or Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula, changes over a timescale of months.
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Hubble Captures Comet ISON
04.23.13 - This image of Comet ISON was captured April 10, when the comet was slightly closer to the Sun than Jupiter, 386 million miles, or 394 million miles from Earth.
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Herschel Links Water Around Jupiter to Comet Impact
04.23.13 - Astronomers trace water in Jupiter's intermediate atmospheric layer back to the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact of 19 years ago.
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Experiment Examining a SLICE of the Interstellar Medium
04.22.13 - SLICE will study the space between the stars known as interstellar space.
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Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar Fuel
04.23.13 - Astronomers have spotted the most efficient maker of stars yet, a galaxy undergoing a rare phase of evolution.
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One of the 'Hidden 15'
04.19.13 - Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globular clusters discovered in the 1950s. They were discovered relatively recently because they are so faint.