NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured new images of dwarf planet Ceres that reveal its craters in greater detail. The images were taken between December 19 and 23 last year from a distance of 240 miles....
NASA’s Lorri or Long-Range Reconnaissance Imaging instrument sent back data of Pluto’s surface that reveal a mysterious snail-like object. The object seems to be slithering through gray, icy surface of Sputnik Planum toward the...
During 2003, scientists observed quasar SDSS J1011+5442 and explored its properties. Meanwhile, they acquired data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope and concluded that the quasar changed dramatically. Namely, it has somehow...
In the following video, Trace Dominguez from DNews explores the area between Mars and Jupiter, also known as the Asteroid Belt. He tries to find answers to the following questions: Did Asteroid Belt contain...
This time-lapse video contains a selection of images captured from Alemoor Reservoir, Scottish Borders, on New Year’s Eve 2016. Their beautiful dance was recorded by an astrophotographer Sam Cornwell.
By using data from the NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft, a team of scientists hypothesizes that the towering mountains on Pluto might be cryovolcanoes. Namely, two Pluto’s mountains – Wright Mons and Piccard Mons that...
By using data from the Kitt Peak National Observatory and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists reveal a supermassive black hole in Messier 51b galaxy while was burping two huge waves of gas. They think...
By using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning image of two galaxies that are in the process of merging. The image seems pretty chaotic, and scientists explain that the merging process...
This video represents a compilation of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The central photography is the one of Westerlund 2, a galaxy cluster that has more than 3,000 stars and is located...
On the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists from the Pennsylvania State University have discovered a new method to test the basic principle of the theory. The method is known as...
The following video shows a collection of images that were captured during 2015. We can enjoy the beautiful sights of distant stars, galaxies, and other celestial objects.
By using the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, astronomers captured this interesting image that shows fresh Martian landslide. The landslide is covered with boulders along a canyon wall.
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