NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket

This June 24, 2020 image is from the Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index. The dust plume moved over...
Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light

This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes...
Photo Release: Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow.

The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA/ESA Hubble...
Press release: Super-Earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf

Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths...
NASA's TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

This animated gif is an artist's concept of the planet AU Mic b and its young parent star. The...
ESA listens in on black hole mission
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X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and stars

By using a new measuring method – the so-called X-ray Thomson scattering – an international team of researchers was able to prove that the high...
Young Planets Bite the Dust

Six circumstellar disks selected from the larger sample of 26 disks obtained with the Gemini South telescope in Chile using the Gemini...