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Watch Saturn’s moon Iapetus hide a bright star
The Cassini spacecraft, orbiting Saturn, captured this mini-eclipse of a star by Iapetus on August 10.
August 15, 2013
A magnetar at the heart of our Milky Way
Radio astronomers are using a pulsar with a strong magnetic field to investigate a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
August 14, 2013
Dwarf galaxy caught ramming into a large spiral
X-ray observations have revealed a giant cloud of superheated gas in a galaxy about 60 million light-years from Earth.
August 14, 2013
New NASA image shows Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
These are all the asteroids that would cause significant regional damage to our human civilization in the event of impact.
August 12, 2013
Gemini’s much-anticipated infrared instrument goes on-sky
Gemini Observatory’s latest instrument, a powerful infrared camera and spectrograph at Gemini South, reveals its potential in a series of striking on-sky commissioning images.
August 9, 2013
Gases left by Perseid meteors a boon to these astronomers
Enjoy this year’s Perseid meteor shower which peaks on the night of August 11-12; astronomers say they will, too!
August 9, 2013
Hubble Space Telescope solves a 40-year mystery
What is the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy? Now we know.
August 8, 2013
If we landed on Jupiter’s moon Europa, what would we want to know?
So far, scientists have seen a fractured, ice-covered world with tantalizing signs of a liquid water ocean - a possible home for microbial life - under its surface.
August 8, 2013
The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip.
August 6, 2013
Hubble sees the fireball from a kilonova
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a new kind of stellar blast called a kilonova that's about 1,000 times brighter than a regular nova.
August 5, 2013
