M94 Shows Ring of Fire Star Factory In New Photo From NASA

Source: JPL press release Summary: Astronomers have made the longest observation yet of a hot Jupiter. By observing the HAT-P-2 system for six days, scientists have uncovered new details of the strange and distant world. Our galaxy is teeming with a ...

Washington, Apr 30 (IBNS) The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The (ESA) mission, launched ...

In 2007 NASA's Spitzer space telescope found the infrared signature of silica (sand) in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The light from this exploding star first reached Earth in the 1600s. The cyan dot just off center is all that remains of the ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope's view of the Galactic Center. G0.253+0.016 is so dense that even infrared light cannot penetrate this cloud. The cloud is seen as a dark silhouette in the left part of the image. The Galactic Center Black Hole—also ...

It has always been harder to think of planets outside of our solar system as nothing has been unraveled about them. Scientists have discovered more than 800 exoplanets. Exoplanets are large gas planets that orbit stars beyond sun. They orbit stars ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is aging. But there was a time when it was merely a twinkle in some astronomer's eye. In fact, we know exactly who that astronomer was, and when he first told the world about the twinkle. Lyman Spitzer, who was at Yale in ...

With the dangers of rogue asteroids made clear by the surprise explosion of a meteor over Russia in February, a non-profit organization is ramping up its effort to search for potentially hazardous space rocks near Earth. The B612 Foundation was ...

Johnny Cash's classic Ring of Fire seems to be inspiring astronomers and space goers alike these days. SpaceX is using the song as a soundtrack to its tests of the Grasshopper reusable rocket, and NASA is using it to describe a rather astonishing ...

Persistent inquisitiveness heading towards the planets has opened up new avenues for exploration. It appears that our galaxy has a montage of planets. Besides our solar system's eight planets, 800 so-called exoplanets are known to surround stars ...