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Astrophotographer Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University has created a new panoramic image of the Milky Way galaxy. You may have seen version 1.0 of Mellinger’s panorama; it’s even for sale as a poster at Amazon. Version 2.0 is an order of magnitude more detailed. It was assembled from more ...
A race between gamma rays across 7.3 billion years of time and space has resulted in a virtual tie, confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity once again. The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Relativity, Albert Einstein, Speed of Light
I’m an unabashed fan of Carl Sagan. I’ve read all his books, some of them several times, and they’ve enriched my life more than I can express. This video is delightful and sad at the same time — a celebration of one of humanity’s great original intellects. [Video]
Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys give us a look at two galaxies that are losing it. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) allows astronomers to study an interesting and important phenomenon called ram pressure stripping that is so powerful, it is ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Galaxies, Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the publicity, but there’s another orbiting telescope that sees into the X-ray spectrum and is also sending back mind-bending images from the depths of space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The latest photograph from Chandra shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ...
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Milky Way, black hole
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, and sending back photographs of the universe that can only be described with that overworked word “awesome:” Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe. [Video]
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, Galaxies, nebulae, Video
A fascinating discovery, from the tail of a comet 242 million miles away from Earth: Building block of life found on comet. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory ...
Science, Space, NASA, Comet, Astronomy, origin of life, Space Exploration
By the way, if you’re into rocks and bits of sand that speed through the solar system for billions of years, then burn up in fiery streaks as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, tonight’s your night. The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show ...
From the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, this infrared image shows the impact site where something huge slammed into Jupiter sometime in the last few days, with its relative size compared to Earth.
Space, Astronomy, Jupiter, Asteroid Impact, Keck Observatory, Hawaii
Using his backyard telescope, Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered that the planet Jupiter was recently struck by something very large — leaving an Earth-sized impact site: New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter. Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope isn’t the only orbiting observatory sending back incredible images from the depths of space; here’s a picture generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory combined with optical imagery: a group of colliding galaxies known as “Stephan’s Quintet.” Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum This beautiful image ...
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Galaxies
The $591 million Kepler mission launched successfully last night, and will soon begin looking for Earth-like planets in other solar systems. The Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft lifted off on time at 10:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...
NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. This striking composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the “Trapezium,” at the center of the cloud ...
Science, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer, Orion Nebula
If this had happened a little bit closer to our solar system, we wouldn’t be worrying about the stimulus bill any more: Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth. WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists ...
Have you always wanted to control where to point the Hubble Space Telescope? Now you can: Hubble’s Next Discovery - You Decide. YOU’RE IN CONTROL! In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the ...
Added to the RSS feeds in our left sidebar: APOD, the acronym for Astronomy Picture of the Day, where today’s featured image is “The Dumbbells:” gaseous remnants of dying sunlike stars. Explanation: These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and ...
This week astronomers announced the first pictures of planets circling other stars, but if you saw the photos released by the wire services you might have wondered, “Where?” Here’s a good illustration from APOD, showing the planet and its position within the giant ring of dust that surrounds Fomalhaut. They’ve ...
Science, NASA, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut, Planets, Astronomy
The Sun, as you’ve never seen it before.
Revealed in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope: gigantic gaseous filaments up to 20,000 light years long, shaped by the magnetic field of a super-massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A.C. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)
LGF, Space, Science, Hubble Space Telescope, black hole, Astronomy
The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of the outer edge of a shockwave generated in our galaxy by an exploding supernova, and witnessed on earth in the year 1006 AD. The entire diameter of this massive galactic ripple is about 60 light years, and it’s still expanding at a ...
In this clip from Iraqi TV, “astronomy researcher” Fadhel Al-Sa’d says the Sun is half the size of the Earth, and flat. Just like the Earth. And he flatly rejects all heretical innovations that aren’t covered by the Koran. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) What does the Koran say about TV? ...