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What Happens Around a Hungry Black Hole?
While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics (and it’s said that at the very heart of a black hole physics as we know it...
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Take a Scenic Flight Through the Universe
I don’t typically post things here about deep-space stuff (just to stay on theme) but this was too cool not to share. It’s a visualization of the Universe made from data acquired by the Sloan Digital...
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The Desert Dishes of Apollo Valley
Panorama of the Deep Space Network’s Apollo Valley in Goldstone, CA (© Jason Major) CLICK FOR FULL SIZE Deep in the Mojave desert of central California, scattered among the scrub-covered hills and...
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A Matter of Scale
Note: this post was first published on Feb. 22, 2011. I’m reposting it again today because 1. the video creator has since updated the soundtrack, and 2. it’s still awesome. One of the things that...
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Hubble Gives Us Our Best View Yet Of The “Pillars of Creation”
Hubble’s newest visible-light image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating the 25th...
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Hubble’s Stunning Star-Filled View of the Andromeda Galaxy
My god it’s full of stars! A crop of Hubble’s newest image of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and...
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Our Five-Trillion-Mile Close Call: the Star(s) That Skimmed the Solar System
Artist’s rendering of two stars, a red dwarf and a brown dwarf, that made a close pass by the Sun 70,000 years ago. (Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester) It’s like something out of a Hollywood film...
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What is a Neutron Star, Anyway?
Neutron stars are strange cosmic beasts. Stellar corpses that are several times the mass of our Sun but only about the width of Manhattan, they can contain a mountain’s worth of star-stuff within the...
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Cassini Spots the Sombrero Galaxy from Saturn
M104 imaged five years apart – from Cassini on April 12, 2015 (left) and from the Subaru Telescope on April 12, 2015 (right). Credits: NASA/JPL/SSI/J. Major and NAOJ. We’re all used to seeing fantastic...
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What Can Hubble See? Find Out in This Music Video
Get into a little “Hubble trouble” with this music video by NPR’s Adam Cole, aka Skunk Bear. Produced in honor of the 25th anniversary of the space telescope’s launch aboard Discovery STS-31 on April...
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What If You Had a Black Hole in Your Pocket?
What would happen if you somehow had a coin-sized black hole to play with? (Come on, you know you’ve been wondering about this.) Well, besides the fact that you’d quickly be dead (spoiler alert) a lot...
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Galactic Collisions Meet Supermassive Black Holes in This Deep Space Image
Composite X-ray (blue), radio (magenta), and optical (background stars and galaxies) image of colliding galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and 3412. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. van Weeren et al; Optical:...
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This Nebula Really Stinks!
The Calabash Nebula, located 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Calabash Nebula, the cosmic...
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Astronomers Witness a Star’s Blazing Death by Black Hole
Artist illustration depicting the record breaking “tidal disruption event” (TDE) in XJ1500+0154. Credit: CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D. Lin et al, Optical: CFHT. A star’s violent death by black...
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Seven Earth-sized Exoplanets Discovered Around a Single Nearby Star!
Artist’s interpretation of the TRAPPIST-1 system, which contains an ultra-cool dwarf star and at least seven rocky exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC). In what’s being called a...
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ESO Images NGC 1055, a Spiral Galaxy “On the Edge”
The spiral galaxy NGC 1055, imaged by ESO’s VLT (Credit: ESO) The European Southern Observatory’s unimaginatively-named but incredibly powerful Very Large Telescope (VLT) located on a remote plateau...
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Did Ancient Supernovas Change Earth’s Climate?
Visible, infrared, and X-ray image of Kepler’s supernova remnant located about 13,000 light-years away. The bubble of ionized gas is about 30 light-years across. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Sankrit and W....
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This Blazing Quasar Got Wave Motion Gunned Clear Out Of Its Galaxy
Hubble image of quasar 3C 186 racing out of from its host galaxy, 8 billion light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Chiaberge (STScI and JHU). Astronomers still have yet to directly...
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