After years of hunting for an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter’s twin planet, orbiting around a Sun-like star, HIP 11915. This newly discovered planet has similar mass...
The Royal Observatory Greenwich organizes with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine the competition for the best astronomy photo for the seventh time. Submissions have already reached 2,700 entries from amateur and...
Astronomers in Mexico are using the Event Horizon Telescope, the largest telescope that contains a whole network of antennas, spread throughout the Earth. They try to take an image of a black hole, or...
This new image released by NASA is created by using three different sources of data: X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and optical data from the Digitized...
A black hole, 12 times larger than our Sun, from the constellation Cygnus, erupts suddenly after 26 years. On June 15th, a NASA satellite detected an X-ray nova, emerging from a binary star system...
In July’s night sky, we can observe Venus and Jupiter as the evening stars, right after the sunset on the western sky. On July 18th, the crescent moon will join to these two bright...
Dark matter baffles scientists for so long. They still do not know what dark matter really is. In this video, Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist from NASA use computer simulation to explain what happens when...
The Very Large Telescope in Chile has captured a formation of a planetary nebula that takes butterfly-like shape with beautiful symmetrical wings. This formation of a nebula emerges from a dying, red, giant star,...
In studying exoplanets, NASA’s infrared telescope called the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) is of enormous importance. Although astronomers have found more than 500 exoplanets, they are still too hard to study because of their...
Although galaxies in our universe are distributed with a lot of vast space between them, from time to time, they come very close to each other and start merging. As a result, they form...
This video leads us on a journey through our Solar System and further. Through sequences of astonishing images and beautiful music in the background, we can explore our Universe and its objects.
This video is a monthly guide for every stargazer on a northern hemisphere. It points out at constellations, planets, deep-sky objects and events during the following month. The month begins with Jupiter and Venus...
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.
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...
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...
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”.
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...
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...
