Jun 17
Researchers today said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
Jun 17
The first APOD appeared eight years ago today, on 1995 June 16. To date, we estimate that APOD has now served over 100 million space-related images. =)
Jun 17
Three thousand light-years away, the Cat’s Eye Nebula, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known.
Jun 17
A whitish patch on the border of a polygon-shaped section of soil may be ice Phoenix will watch to see if it vaporises in the sunlight
Jun 17
Exoplanet discoveries are streaming in thanks to technological advances a third of Sun-like stars may host planets a few times heftier than Earth
Jun 17
Protogalaxies that formed soon after the big bang may have had plenty of stars after all, thanks to blast waves from supernovae
Jun 17
What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to be supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Gas and dust that falls toward a quasar glows brightly, sometimes outglowing the entire home galaxy. The quasars that formed in the first billion years of the universe are more mysterious…
Jun 17
Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies