Featured Image: X-Rays from the Dark Side of Venus
Imaging of Venus during its 2012 transit across the Sun revealed X-ray emission coming from the planet’s dark side. What was the source of this light?
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Featured Image: Tests of an MHD Code
Creating the codes that are used to numerically model astrophysical systems takes a lot of work — and a lot of testing! Here’s a brief look at the some of the entrancing test outputs from the new DISCO code.
Featured Image: Hubble’s New Views of Debris Disks
Hubble’s STIS instrument has made several new observations of debris disks around three nearby solar-analog stars.
Featured Image: The Milky Way’s X
This contrast-enhanced image of the Milky Way from the WISE satellite reveals the X-shaped morphology of our galactic bulge.
Models of a Circumbinary Disk
This image captures a scene from a simulation of a binary star system surrounded by a circumbinary disk.
Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
This beautiful image features Eridanus II, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy that is orbiting the Milky Way.
Featured Image: Supernova Remnants in the LMC
These vibrant images of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud were created to explore the galaxy’s interstellar medium.
Featured Image: Mapping Jupiter with Hubble
Check out this beautiful Hubble map of Jupiter’s surface — and get excited for the Juno mission’s arrival at Jupiter today!
Featured Image: Star Clusters in M51
This stunning Hubble image reveals star clusters within the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) and its companion.
Featured Image: Fireball After a Temporary Capture?
The fireball in this image may have been produced by a unique type of object that was temporarily captured by the Earth.