Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star wars far away in the Orion Nebula. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle,[Read More…]
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Detailed Age Map Shows How Milky Way Came Together
Notre Dame, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre Dame astronomers have produced the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed more than 13.5 billion years ago. Astrophysicist Daniela Carollo, research assistant professor in the Department[Read More…]
ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and[Read More…]
NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable. Credits: NASA NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. Venus may[Read More…]
NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
Artist concept. A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth’s size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the star’s “habitable” zone, where liquid water[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement for how fast the universe expands with time, called the Hubble constant. Credits: NASA, ESA and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2016. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that[Read More…]
Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin[Read More…]
Hubble Uncovers Fading Cinders of Some of Our Galaxy’s Earliest Homesteaders
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a “cosmic archaeological dig” at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have uncovered the blueprints of our galaxy’s early construction phase. Peering deep into the Milky Way’s crowded central hub of stars, Hubble researchers have uncovered for the first[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2015. If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that two of Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably.[Read More…]
Astronomers Set a New Distance Record for Galaxies
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2015 By Tim Stephens The galaxy EGS-zs8-1 sets a new distance record. It was discovered in images from the Hubble Space Telescope from the CANDELS survey. Yale and UC Santa Cruz astronomers measured its exact distance using the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the Keck I telescope at the[Read More…]
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