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Astronomy Apr 4, 2025

Image: A chance alignment in Lupus

The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus (The Wolf). This galaxy is classified ...

Astronomy Apr 4, 2025

Hubble spots star cluster NGC 346

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the celebrations with a new image of the star cluster NGC 346, featuring new data and processing techniques. ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 4, 2025

Massive Jupiter storm churns ammonia deep into planet's atmosphere

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered that a massive amount of ammonia is churned up and down in Jupiter's atmosphere ...

Astronomy Apr 3, 2025

The significance of the recent 'baby pictures' showing the universe when it was just 380,000 years old

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible ...

Astronomy Apr 2, 2025

Image: X-ray clues reveal a star that may have destroyed a planet

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center; this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen before—and could explain a mysterious ...

Space Exploration Apr 2, 2025

How space law aims to regulate 'space junk' and protect Earth

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there's also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early months of 2025. So far, debris from SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets has landed in locations including ...

Astronomy Apr 1, 2025

NASA's SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has turned on its detectors for the first time in space. Initial images from the observatory, which launched ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 31, 2025

Hubble's 20-year study of Uranus yields new atmospheric insights

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an unprecedented study spanning two decades, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered ...

Astronomy Mar 31, 2025

Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind binary system, observations find

Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations of a massive star known as Melnick 39. As a result, they found that Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 28, 2025

The future of studying exoVenuses looks bright

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) provide these insights?

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