Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...
In this artistic rendering, light from a distant quasar passes through the halo-like circumgalactic medium of a galaxy on its way to Earth, where it is measured by Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ...
Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.
Peculiar Pair IC 4271: This new Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, is a curious pair of spiral galaxies some 800 million light-years away. A Jellyfish Galaxy Adrift: The ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...
Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell ...
Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...
The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...
A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...
In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
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