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Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil - NASA
NASA· 2 days agoThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself... 2005 is...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 3 days agoUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma...
How are galaxies destroyed?
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoEventually, all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, will meet their end. But how do galaxies die? If you're in the mood to destroy an entire galaxy,...
Space Winds Unleashed: First Map of Outflows From Nearby Quasar I Zwicky 1
SciTechDaily· 3 hours agoI Zwicky 1. Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive black hole in their...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 2 days agoDark matter has gravity, so it influences the way normal matter moves around and clumps up in...
Where is the center of the universe?
SPACE.com· 42 minutes agoIf the Big Bang started the universe, then where did it all come from, and where is it going? In the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble made two amazing...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 2 days agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our...
Stellar Fireworks: Hubble Revisits a Strange Star’s 40-Year Nova Mystery
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoOne of the strangest of these events happened in 1975, when a nova called HM Sagittae grew 250 times...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDwarf galaxies are thought to contain intermediate-mass black holes, measuring tens...describe how...
Astronomers get closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts
SPACE.com· 2 days agoFast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just ...