This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 7456. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker While it may appear as just another spiral galaxy among billions in the universe,…
Category: Planetary Science
Asia will get a prime view of this weekend’s total lunar eclipse
The moon shines over Mexico City during a total lunar eclipse, in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File The year’s second total lunar eclipse is…
See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ debut
Ed Stone, the longtime project scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, cohosts a news conference on June 6, 1990, during which the mission revealed the “Solar System Family Portrait,” a mosaic…
Solar flares may be 6.5 times hotter than previously thought
A solar limb flare with a comparatable scale of Earth. Credit: Created by Alexander Russell (University of Andrews) using open-source SunPy Python package and data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory…
Astronomers discover one of the most massive binary stars in the galaxy
NGC 3603 is a starburst region located 22,000 light years away from the Sun, it’s the closest region of this kind known in our Galaxy Credit: ESO A research team…
Webb captures dusty wisps round a planet-forming disk
Webb’s view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Villenave et al. For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope…
Is there life on Saturn’s moon? Where there’s water, there’s a chance
Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA At first glance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth’s moon and is far away and completely covered in…
