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Dying Star Blows Surprising Spiral Bubble
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, astronomers found an unexpected spiral structure surrounding the red giant star R…
Watch Live: A Day in the Life of the Very Large Telescope
Ever wonder what takes place on a daily basis at one of the premier ground-based observatories? The European Southern Observatory…
Take a Gander at a Cosmic Gull
The head and "eye" of the Seagull Nebula (ESO) This colorful new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory highlights the…
Blowing a Super-duper Celestial Bubble
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Celestial Dreaming in a Bit of Pipe Smoke
Zoom into the Pipe Nebula by using the zoom slider, or pan around the image by using the arrow icons…
Tranquil Galaxy is Home to Violent Events
This beautiful spiral galaxy looks peaceful, with its swirling white and blue arms appearing like they could be home to…
Looking Into the Heart of a Quasar
Caption: Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser From an ESO press release: An international team of…
Remastering a Cosmic Cat Print
Glowing red against a backdrop of stars, amateur astronomers have remastered one of the sky's most distinctive nebulae, the Cat's…
How to Measure a Hot Jupiter
An international team of astronomers has figured out a way to determine details of an exoplanet's atmosphere from 50 light-years…
Gas Cloud Will Collide with our Galaxy’s Black Hole in 2013
Scientists have determined a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of…