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MESSENGER images - December 12-16, 2011 18 Jan 2012 | 08:15 am
The following new featured images taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft are now available: A Small Pond (Released 12 December 2011) This image shows a small pond of impact melt that was ejected from a c...
Mars Odyssey THEMIS images - December 12-16, 2011 18 Jan 2012 | 08:12 am
The following new images taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft are now available: Windstreak (Released 12 December 2011) This windstreak is location on...
RXTE detects 'heartbeat' of smallest black hole candidate 18 Jan 2012 | 08:08 am
An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The evidence comes from a specific type of...
Young star rebels against its parent cloud 18 Jan 2012 | 07:32 am
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can ...
HiRISE images for December 14, 2011 18 Jan 2012 | 06:58 am
The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: Faults in Ius Chasma Ius Chasma is one of m...
Chandra: A galaxy cluster gets sloshed 18 Jan 2012 | 06:51 am
Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from Chandra shows the hot...
Fermi shows that Tycho's star shines in gamma rays 18 Jan 2012 | 06:26 am
In early November 1572, observers on Earth witnessed the appearance of a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia, an event now recognized as the brightest naked-eye supernova in more than 400 years...
Dawn images - December 12-13, 2011 18 Jan 2012 | 06:15 am
The following new featured images taken by the Dawn spacecraft are now available: Topography and Albedo Image of Numisia Crater (Released 12 December 2011) These Dawn Framing Camera (FC) images show...
Hubble: Standing out from the crowd 12 Dec 2011 | 11:12 pm
The compact nature of globular clusters is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, having so many stars of a similar age in one bundle gives astronomers insights into the chemical makeup of our galaxy ...
WISE: Ancient supernova revealed 12 Dec 2011 | 10:52 pm
About 3,700 years ago people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. As it slowly dimmed out of sight, it was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers found its remains -- ...
