Watch Live: Comet C/2013 A meets planet Mars on Virtual Telescope
Watch Live Feed from the Virtual Telescope HERE! The Comet and the Planet: comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring meets planet Mars” – 19 Oct. 2014, 16:45 UT, 12:45 EST. Related:…
Category Archives: 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 star in this artist’s depiction. Such crossings, or transits, are…
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 located in the constellation of Serpens or The Serpent. The…
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 this month will wash out the less bright meteors. 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 an unusual supernova explosion of a white dwarf, the stripped-down…
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 monster elliptical galaxy. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion…
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 of a planet outside our solar system. The size of…
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 orbiting stars similar to the Sun — and have come…
