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Observing Alert: Distant Blazar 3C 454.3 in Outburst, Visible in Amateur Telescopes

Have an 8-inch or larger telescope? Don't mind staying up late? Excellent. Here's a chance to stare deeper into the…

10 years ago

Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Erupting from Europa

It's been known since 2005 that Saturn's 300-mile-wide moon Enceladus has geysers spewing ice and dust out into orbit from…

11 years ago

Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies From Getting Bigger

It's long been a mystery for astronomers: why aren't galaxies bigger? What regulates their rates of star formation and keeps…

11 years ago

Jets Boost — Not Hinder — Star Formation in Early Galaxies, New Study Suggests

Understanding the formation of stars and galaxies early in the Universe's history continues to be somewhat of an enigma, and…

11 years ago

Bright Jets Blast Out from a Newborn Star

Like very young humans, very young stars also tend to make a big mess out of the stuff around them…

12 years ago

Black Hole Jets Might Be Molded by Magnetism

Visible-light Hubble image of the jet emitted by the 3-billion-solar-mass black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 (Feb. 1998)…

12 years ago

Gigantic Plasma Jets Pour From the Heart of Hercules A

Combined Hubble (optical) and VLA (radio) images show enormous radio jets shooting out from the galaxy Hercules A Talk about…

12 years ago

NASA Jets Buzz The Capitol

[/caption] Earlier today, Thursday, April 5,  two NASA T-38 jets passed over the Washington, DC metropolitan area, during planned training…

13 years ago

World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature’s “LHC”

[/caption] In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a…

15 years ago

Hinode Discovers the Sun’s Hidden Sparkle

Blinking spots of intense light are being observed all over the lower atmosphere of the Sun. Not just in the…

17 years ago