Astronomy
Planetary Disks Slow Stellar Rotation
New data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are giving astronomers a sense of how protoplanetary disks might act as a…
A Glimpse at the Future of Our Sun
A team of astronomers recently used Arizona's Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to peer 4 billion years…
At the Centre of the Milky Way
You're looking at the heart of your own galaxy with X-ray specs. This photograph was captured by NASA's Chandra X-Ray…
Powerful Explosion is a Taste of What’s to Come
Earlier this year, astronomers watched a nova explosion blast off the surface of a white dwarf star in the system…
Is Proxima Centauri Flying Solo?
If you want to send an interstellar probe, you're going to chose the closest star. And that would be Proxima…
Iani Chaos on Mars
This image captured by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows the Iani Chaos region on Mars, east of Valles Marineris. The…
Young Neutron Star Won’t Act its Age
This image, taken by ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, shows the heart of supernova remnant RCW103. This is all that remains of…
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Sky Shade Could Reveal Planets
Space telescopes designed to observe distant planets need to be powerful, but they also need some method of blocking the…
Four Supernova Remnants by Chandra
These four photographs of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy were taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The…