An eclipse-like image captured by the LASCO instrument on the SOHO spacecraft includes a picture of the moon added for scale. To see the latest image, visit https://eclipse.helioviewer.org/. Credit: NASA/Eclipse…
Category: Planetary Science
Distant ‘space snowman’ unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become ‘ice bombs’
This image was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research…
Curiosity rover searches for new clues about Mars’ ancient water
The steep path NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data. At lower right is the point…
Astronomers only knew of a single binary Cepheid system—they just found nine more
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods — RS Puppis, for example,…
Three-year study of young stars with NASA’s Hubble enters new chapter
The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than our Sun. The top panel is a Hubble Space Telescope…
Research unlocks supernova stardust secrets
Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed…
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars
This image, taken by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), shows two supermassive black holes, which appear as the blobs with red strips. The black holes are in the center…
Tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever detected
Artist ‘s impression of sound waves (p modes), with different frequencies, traveling across the inner layers of a star. Credit: Tania Cunha (Planetário do Porto—Centro Ciência Viva)/Instituto de Astrofísica e…
