J1532 X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford/J.Hlavacek-Larrondo et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/M.Postman & CLASH team One of the most powerful things in the universe wears a sparkly purple coat. Well, at least it looks that way in this image combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. This is an image of the galaxy cluster RX …
Physicist Stephen Hawking on a Zero-Gravity Flight, 2007 Jim Campbell – Aero-News Network for Zero Gravity Corporation® Stephen Hawking has a big announcement. No, it’s not that aliens exist or that humans won’t survive another 1,000 years on Earth. The physicist claims, in a paper posted online Wednesday, that the idea of an event …
Hubble view of a Cepheid variable star Many stars do not consistently shine with the same magnitude or brightness. Such stars are called variables, their brightness normally changing in cycles which can last from hours to years. Some exhibit irregular non-cyclical variation. Stellar variability can have many causes. These include changes caused by …
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Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, getting fainter and fainter, in this time-lapse image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The image of the sun at the center is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. ESA/NASA/SOHO/SDO/GSFC From our January newsletter, By Dr Jenny Morris 2 December: …
Stunning photographs of the cosmos, like the wondrous images captured by the Hubble Space telescope, convey the beauty that arises from the simple interactions of dust and light and gas on absolutely massive scales. Missing from photos of the universe, however, is a sense of depth: These stunning nebula are not a paint splatter on …
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