Black Hole in M87 Wanders using Jetpack
[/caption] The elliptical galaxy M87 is known for a jet of radiation that is streaming from the supermassive black hole…
Time-Lapse Satellite View of Growing Oil Spill
We've featured many aerial satellite images of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, here on Universe Today, but this time-lapse video…
Where In the Universe #106
Here's this week's Where In The Universe Challenge. You know what to do: take a look at this image and…
Masten Successfully Re-Ignites Rocket Engine During Test Flight
“This was by far the coolest rocket flight I’ve ever seen!” said Ian Garcia, Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer for…
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand in New Herschel Image
[/caption] Wow. Just wow. Each of the colored dots in this new image from the Herschel telescope is a galaxy…
Man-Made Object Spotted Orbiting the Sun
[/caption] My dotAstronomy pal Edward Gomez from the Las Cumbres Observatory is reporting that a man-made object has been spotted…
Atlantis Crew ‘Riding Inside a Fireball’
[/caption] At a post-landing news conference, STS-132 commander Ken Ham described the incredible visual effects the crew of Atlantis witnessed…
Newly-Discovered Stellar Nurseries in the Milky Way
[/caption] Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in…
Galaxy Mergers Make Black Holes ‘Light Up’
Only about 1% of supermassive black holes emit large amounts of energy, and astronomers have wondered for decades why so…
Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved
[/caption] The shape of the two-mile-tall Texas-sized ice cap at the north pole of Mars has puzzled scientists for forty…