Astronomy

Hubble’s Detailed Photograph of the Carina Nebula

It's hard to believe, but the Hubble Space Telescope has been churning out discovery after discovery for 17 years now.…

18 years ago

Observatories Get the Jump on Gamma Ray Bursts

Even though gamma ray bursts are the most powerful known explosions in the Universe, you've got to move quickly if…

18 years ago

Supersonic “Bullets” of Gas Ejected from the Orion Nebula

This beautiful photograph shows a small portion of the star-forming Orion Nebula. The strange, wake-like structures are supersonic "bullets" of…

18 years ago

Jupiter As Seen From Saturn

It's not a great picture of Jupiter, but that's not the point. The point is that the photograph was taken…

18 years ago

A Very Long Lasting Gamma Ray Burst

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. Even more amazing is just how quickly…

18 years ago

New Globular Cluster Discovered

Globular star clusters are gigantic collections of stars formed at the same time, and held together by their mutual gravity.…

18 years ago

Podcast: The Story of Galaxy Evolution

Our Milky Way is a complex and majestic barred spiral galaxy. But 13.7 billion years ago it began, like all…

18 years ago

A Baby Picture of the Sun

Obviously there's no way to see what our Sun looked like when it was still forming billions of years ago,…

18 years ago

Some Galaxies Are Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

When we think of a galaxy, we think of our own Milky Way or perhaps Andromeda; a majestic spiral containing…

18 years ago

XMM-Newton’s View of Supernova 1987A

I linked you to an image of Supernova 1987A taken by the Hubble Space Telescope around the explosion's 20th anniversary.…

18 years ago