(Source NASA) – A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters, gas giant planets…
Category: Astronomy
Comet ISON intact, We may still get a good show.
(Source NASA) – A new image of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some…
Pan-Starrs 1 Telescope images first planet without a sun
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet,…
Kepler-Spitzer give first look at clouds on exoplanet
For the first time we now have an idea what the clouds look like on a planet outside our own…
Chandra finds densest galaxy 54 million light years away.
(NASA) – Astronomers may have found the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located…
Communications lost, NASA Deep Impact Mission ended
Last month controllers lost contact with NASA’s Deep Impact mission, several weeks were spent trying to uplink commands to reactivate…
Hubble Finds Largest Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter
(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees…
Voyager 1 enters interstellar space, what does it mean to us?
It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system…
