NASA’s Kepler space telescope observed this effect in a double-star system called KOI-256 by monitoring changes in the red star’s brightness. The white dwarf’s gravity is so great it bends and magnifies light from the red star.
This artist’s concept depicts a dense, dead star called a white dwarf crossing in front of a small red star. Mars Pathfinder was launched on 4 December, 1996 at 1:58:07 am EST on a Delta II rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is the earliest starburst galaxy ever observed. But appearances can be deceiving for it is making stars more than 2,000 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy, one of the highest star-formation rates ever seen in any galaxy.Īstronomers, including Matt Bradford, Jamie Bock, Darren Dowell, Hien Nguyen and Jonas Zmuidzinas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California have discovered a dust-filled, massive galaxy churning out stars when the cosmos was a mere 880 million years old. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, red smudge in images from the Herschel space observatory. This artist’s impression shows the “starburst” galaxy HFLS3. The star is called GJ 504 and is located 57 light-years from Earth.Īstronomers Discover Massive Star Factory. The planet is several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size. It was announced in October 2013.Īstronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like StarĪn international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has imaged GJ 504b, the lowest-mass planet ever detected (2013) around a star like the sun. Kepler-56 is more than 4 times the radius of our sun and is about 3000 light years from Earth. By analyzing the fluctuations in brightness at different points on the surface of Kepler-56 astronomers discovered that the star’s rotation axis is tilted by about 45 degrees to our line of sight. Using data from NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft, astronomers discovered a planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star, Kepler-56, a red giant star. NASA astronaut, the Earth and the International Space Station…an Artist’s concept. Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This illustration shows a star’s light illuminating the atmosphere of a planet. NASA scientists found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets orbiting three different stars. NASA Finds Signals of Water on Hazy Exoplanets. Planetary Nebula, Sh2-174 image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Space Pictures contains images ranging from planets, NASA pics, Hubble images, universe, rockets, solar system, stars, astronomy pictures, galaxies, esa, spacecraft, aurora borealis and more.