Gigantic Black Hole 12 billion times more massive than our Sun
A gigantic black hole at the heart of the brightest quasar in the early universe discovered, 12 billion times more massive than our sun.
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How much Saharan Dust feeds Amazon’s plants
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions the amounts of dust that makes a trans-Atlantic journey… How much Saharan dust feeds Amazon’s
Astronaut’s selfie on a Spacewalk
NASA astronaut’s Barry Wilmore selfie, outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks.
Eastern U.S. in a record-breaking ‘Freezer’
NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer.
The Milky Way over the Arizona Toadstools
The magnificent central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy arches over the aged Toadstool hoodoos rock formations in northern Arizona, USA. Image credit David Lane & R.
An extremely bright Black Hole emitting Trillion Suns’ worth of energy
In a new study, astronomers determined PDS 456, an extremely bright black hole known as a quasar more than 2 billion light-years away, sustains winds that carry
Magnetospheric Multiscale Observatories ready for launch
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observatories are ready for launch and processed in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida.
Flower on the Sun
Some regions of the solar chromosphere, in a specific color of red light emitted by hydrogen, may resemble a rose.
Aurora with Moon on Ice
This stunning expansive fisheye view of ice, Moon with a halo, Jupiter and Aurora was captured at Jökulsárlón Beach, southeast Iceland. Image credit Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)
5 years Solar time-lapse
This time-lapse video, by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that celebrates its 5th anniversary since it launched on February 11, 2010, captures one frame every 8 hours…