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Colossal Binary's Clashing Winds
10.12.12 - An enormous binary star pair some 4,700 light-years away pounds its surroundings with intense outflows called stellar winds.
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Hubble Sees a Planetary Nebula in the Making
10.11.12 - Planetary nebulae — the expanding, glowing shells of gas coming from sun-like stars at the end of their lives — are some of the most fascinating objects in the night sky.
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Swift Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy
10.05.12 - Swift recently detected the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole.
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Hubble Sees Cosmic Riches
10.04.12 - This dazzling image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, or M 69 for short, as viewed through the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Helix Nebula - Bigger in Death than Life
10.03.12 - What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.
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NASA Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
10.03.12 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.
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Hubble Portrays a Dusty Spiral Galaxy
09.28.12 - This week, we highlight the galaxy NGC 4183, seen here with a beautiful backdrop of distant galaxies and nearby stars.
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'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
09.27.12 - Gravity waves predicted by Einstein have never been observed directly, but many scientists think that this discovery is just a few years away.
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Hubble Assembles Farthest Universe View Ever
09.25.12 - Ten years' worth of data went into compiling the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, the deepest view of our universe ever created.
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Milky Way is Surrounded by Hot Gas Halo
09.24.12 - Chandra finds evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years.