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NASA image release May 11, 2010 Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus Image: Hubble/WFPC2...
NASA image release May 11, 2010 Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus Image: ESO 2.2-m...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the...
Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
As Swift begins its investigation of gamma-ray bursts, NASA scientists are anxious to see if their origins lie in...
This artist's concept shows ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, which launched on Dec. 3, 2015, from Kourou, French...
NASA image release December 5, 2011 This is an artist's concept of the fastest rotating star found to date. The...
NASA image release February 8, 2012 Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky...
Highlights of the November sky include how to watch as Mercury transits the Sun on Nov. 11, plus how to observe the...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the...
Nova Stars are essentially giant fusion reactions occurring in the vacuum of space. Because stars have so much mass,...
S94-36965 (20 Sept 1994) --- The rising sun signifies the dawn of a new era of human Spaceflight, the first phase of...
The rising sun signifies the dawn of a new era of human Spaceflight, the first phase of the United States/Russian...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue...
The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus...
This image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar...
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...
What are some skywatching highlights in April 2022? The gathering of planets in the morning sky goes from three to...
NASA image release April 27, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into...
On June 15, NASA's Swift caught the onset of a rare X-ray outburst from a stellar-mass black hole in the binary...
Mysterious and fleeting, gamma-ray bursts come from galaxies so far away that they take billions of years to reach...
Caption: DG CVn, a binary consisting of two red dwarf stars shown here in an artist's rendering, unleashed a series...
Supernova Supernovae can occur one of two ways. The first occurs when a white dwarf—the vestigial ember of a dead...