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About 50 million light-years away lies a small, somewhat overlooked galaxy called NGC 1559. Photographed here by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, this barred spiral is located in the little-observed southern constellation of Reticulum. ). NGC 1559 has huge spiral arms packed with star formation and is moving away from us at a speed of
The new NASA exoplanet The catalog contains 126 newly discovered worlds of a wide variety. It will help astronomers learn more about how exoplanets form and evolve. The catalog will also help them compare exoplanets with planets in our own solar system. Image via WM Keck Observatory/ Adam Makarenko/ University of California, Riverside. A new
WASHINGTON – Peru and Slovakia signed the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for responsible space exploration, bringing the number of countries that have signed to 42. In separate ceremonies at NASA headquarters on May 30, Peruvian Foreign Minister Javier González-Olaechea and Tomáš Drucker, Slovakia's Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth, signed the Artemis Accords
This ghostly image shows a distant, pulsating red giant star known as R Sculptoris. Located 1,200 light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, R Sculptoris is something known as a carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, meaning it is nearing the end of its life. At this stage, low- and intermediate-mass stars cool, create extended atmospheres,
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million kilometers). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from home at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour
43 Using data from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have gained new insights into the feeding habits of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies across the universe. These black holes often fluctuate in brightness due to the huge clumps of cosmic material falling into them. However, this is not true for black
Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 3344 appears head-on, allowing astronomers a detailed view of its intricate and elegant structure. And Hubble's ability to observe objects at a wide range of different wavelengths reveals features that would otherwise remain invisible. Spiral galaxies are some of the most spectacular sights in the
Located in the young star-forming region of Ophiuchus, 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disk called AS 209 is slowly being carved. This wonderful image was captured with the high-resolution ALMA telescope and reveals a curious pattern of rings and spaces in the dust surrounding a young star. Protoplanetary disks are dense, rotating
PALO ALTO, California – The Center for Aerospace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) at Stanford University held an inaugural event on May 22 to highlight the industry-academia-government collaboration it seeks to foster. “We founded CAESAR with the goal of addressing and solving the problem of spacecraft autonomy through the judicious incorporation of intelligent artificial components,” said Simone
View larger. | The Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Europe during its closest flyby ever on September 29, 2022. The images reveal new clues about the moon's icy crust. It looks like it's floating in the ocean below! Image via NASA JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ Björn Jónsson. NASA's Juno mission has provided images
