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Embracing Orion 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Herschel’s view of Orion A The Orion A star-formation cloud seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The Orion Nebula is located within the central bright region of this scene, where massive star fo...
A Fluffy Disk Around a Baby Star 26 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
An international team of astronomers that are members of the Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope (SEEDS) Project has used Subaru Telescope's High Contrast Instrument fo...
NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
A montage of images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope over the years. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. See image gallery Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in th...
A cosmic optical illusion 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
APMBGC 252+125-117, ESO 251-1, PGC 16389 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola Large JPEG At first glance, this Hubble picture appears to capture two space colossi entangled in a...
Hubble Takes Movies of Space Slinky 22 Aug 2013 | 10:26 pm
M87 Jet Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Meyer, W. Sparks, J. Biretta, J. Anderson, S.T. Sohn, and R. van der Marel (STScI), C. Norman (Johns Hopkins University), and M. Nakamura (Academia Sinica) Compass and ...
Free-floating planets may be born free 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Tiny, round, cold clouds in space have all the right characteristics to form planets with no parent star. New observations, made with Chalmers University of Technology telescopes, show that not all fr...
NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection 21 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
The SOHO LASCO C2 instrument captured this image of the Earth-directed CME. SOHO's coronographs are able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an o...
ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth 21 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
PR Image eso1336a Stunning ALMA and NTT image of Newborn Star PR Image eso1336b ALMA’s view of the outflow associated with the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 PR Image eso1336c The Herbig-Haro object...
The Strange Attraction of Hot Jupiters 19 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
A new ScienceCast video explores the unexpected and exotic characteristics of hot Jupiters Play it When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a...
Stars fleeing a cosmic crash 16 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
ESO 489-056 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola Astronomical pictures sometimes deceive us with tricks of perspective. Right in the centre of this image, two spiral galaxies app...
