Watch Live Feed from the Virtual Telescope HERE! The Comet and the Planet: comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring meets planet…
Category: Astronomy
NASA Finds Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Exoplanet HAT-P-11b
Seeing Starlight Through a Planet’s Rim A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its…
New beautiful Spiral Galaxy image from Hubble, No this is not a Painting
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope image shows the beautiful spiral galaxy PGC 54493. This galaxy is…
Perseids Meteor Shower August 12, 13 – At same time as SuperMoon!
On the evening of Aug. 12-13, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak in the skies over Earth. Unfortunately the Supermoon…
Potential ‘Zombie Star’ found by Hubble in Supernova Star System
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the first time have spotted a star system that later produced…
Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Early Universe
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant cosmic magnifying glass, produced by a…
The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World’s Size Kepler-93b
(NASA) – Thanks to NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius…
Hubble finds three astonishingly dry exoplanets
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets…
