Starburst Galaxy NGC 908
This photograph of galaxy NGC 908 was taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This spiral galaxy was…
The Search for Hidden Black Holes
Look into the sky with X-ray instruments, and you'll see a background radiation in all directions. Astronomers think these X-rays…
New View on Pulsars
Pulsars are the rapidly spinning corpses of massive stars. And although they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, they still…
Astrophoto: Centaurus A by Johannes Schedler
Natural disasters are, unfortunately, something that we must contend with. For example, a flash flood can plunge towns into unexpected…
Huygens Data Used to Measure Titan’s Pebbles
When ESA's Huygens probe landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan last year, it continued to transmit data for…
Evidence of Lakes on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found new evidence of hydrocarbon lakes in Titan's northern latitudes. In a new set of images,…
A New View of Quasars
Some of the brightest objects in the Universe are quasars. A mystery for decades, most astronomers now believe quasars are…
Podcast: Inevitable Supernova
Consider the dramatic binary system of RS Ophiuchi. A tiny white dwarf star, about the size of our Earth, is…
What’s Up this Week: July 24 – July 30, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Welcome to a land of all sight and no sound... A land where shadow meets substance. Welcome…
Earth-Sized Planets Could Be Nearby
Nearly all of the extrasolar planets discovered so far have been huge, Jupiter-sized and above. The question is: could smaller,…