Gum 19 or better known as the two-sided nebula is 22,000 light-years away from our planet, settled in Vela constellation. This breathtaking image is captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
This video shows our night sky from the International Space Station. NASA’s astronaut, Terry Vrits, shares with us this amazing view of the Milky Way.
The Hubble Space Telescope has recently discovered a new star that rapidly ages. The star is encircled by a huge disc of gas, which is two trillion miles in its diameter. According to scientists,...
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has detected the brightest galaxy we have ever known in our Universe. This galaxy is billions of light-years away from us and orbits around the extremely large...
This time-lapse video shows the night sky and the Milky Way near Butler, Missouri on May 18-19th, 2015. A group of astrophotographers from Dark Sky Site Club has captured these beautiful images.
ESA’s Mars Express has taken high-resolution images of Siloe Patera, an area of Martian surface rgar is composed of two craters. Scientists believe that it could be the remnants of Mars’ supervolcano, which reminds...
Although extremely dim and hard to observe, Medusa Nebula’s new image with a lot of details has been taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The Nebula is located in the constellation of...
Near the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, scientists found a magnetar, called SGR 1745-2900. Recently, they have discovered that the magnetar, which is, in fact, a neutron star with a...
Scientists from Rosetta’s OSIRIS team have spotted a so-called ‘balancing rocks’ on the comet 67P/ Churyumov – Gerasimenko. They discovered a group of three boulders in the Aker region of the comet. The biggest...
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity started its journey 11 years ago. On March 24th, 2015, it finished its first Martian Marathon, which every step was a search for new discoveries. Its mission is to gather...
In the following video we can see a selection of amazing images captured by amateur astrophotographers and ESO staff. They are all members of Flickr community called “Your ESO Pictures”.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto’s tiniest moons, Kerberos and Styx. These images were captured from a distance of 55 million miles away. In July this year, NASA’s New...
Scientists have captured a new image of a dwarf planet Ceres, which reveals more bright spots on its surface than they possibly thought. Although this new image is clearer and detects the crater on...
Christina Beck, a planetary geologist of the Johns Hopkins University, explores the geology of Mars by using the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). One of her fields of research is Valles Marineris,...
In the following video, Julia Wilde from DNews speaks about Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbor that lies 2.5 million light-years away from us. She weaves the story of Andromeda from its very beginnings, exploring...
NASA’s New Horizons probe has captured the latest image of Pluto from a distance of 70,000 miles. This image displays a bright spot on the dwarf planet’s surface, which may represent its polar ice...
In this video, Dr. Nick Siegler, Technology Manager of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, explains how coronagraph, a promising technology, works in searching for exoplanets. For this purpose, scientists use a space telescope with...
NASA’s Cassini mission enables scientists to rethink the nature of a hundred geysers they found on Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth moon. They reconsidered their previous explanation on erupting jet-like geysers on Enceladus and concluded that...
