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The Jim Rome Show LISTEN LIVE Photo credit Getty Images As a team deals with computer-related issues on the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA released images of a red, white and blue cluster captured by the telescope ahead of the July 4 holiday. Fireworks in space.�� We hope your #FourthOfJuly celebration is as beautiful as this @NASAHubble image of a supernova remnant found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that lies close to our galaxy. More on this image: https://t.co/HV9nSK4pC4pi...

Autumn astronomyBy: James Smith Autumn is my favourite time for observing the night skies. The evenings are cooler, but not yet too cold. The skies get darker earlier, so we don’t have to stay up so late, and we have the best objects to see in autumn. Some of our favourite Southern Hemisphere constellations are in full display. The Southern Cross is easily seen, as well as Orion (including the ‘Pot’) and Canis Major. Taurus, Cancer and Gemini are also visible in autumn. The first two rea...

Last Updated: Wolf Rayet Stars: Four Indian Astronomers Trace Rare Supernova Explosion From Nainital Indian astronomers tracked a rare supernova explosion called Wolf Rayet Stars and discovered that it was one of the hottest kind of stars in the universe Indian astronomers have tracked a rare supernova explosion and traced it to be one of the hottest kind of stars. They are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun. They are called Wolf Rayet Stars and these are highly energ...

184 NGC 362 is the “other” brilliant globular cluster in Tucana, located on the north-east border of the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered by James Dunlop on August 1, 1826 and cataloged by him as No. 62 of his catalog. In the late 1980s, NGC 362 was compared to the otherwise similar globular NGC 288, and it was found that this cluster was about 3 billion years younger. This because of differences in the color-magnitude diagrams: the so-c...

Third data release from Gaia spacecraft maps 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way Astronomers from the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium have made public the first part of the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft. The findings, published or being reviewed in a series of papers in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, accurately mapped the position of 1,811,709,771 stars in our Milky Way galaxy, including the distances from Earth and relative moti...

The Dark Energy Survey, a global collaboration including researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has released DR2, the second data release in the survey’s seven-year history. DR2 was the topic of sessions at the 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which was held virtually January 10-15. The second data release from the Dark Energy Survey, or DES, is the culmination of over a half-decade of astronomical data collection and analysis with the ultimate goal of under...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to study a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud have determined light from the blast reached Earth 1,700 years ago during the decline of the Roman Empire. While it would have been visible to inhabitants of the southern hemisphere, there are no known records of any observations. Located some 200,000 light years away, the remnant is known as 1E 0102.2-7219. As shown below, gaseous knots in the expanding cloud of debris that are headed in Ear...

Hubble Pinpoints Supernova Blast Featured in this Hubble image is an expanding, gaseous corpse — a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219. It is the remnant of a star that exploded long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located roughly 200 000 light-years away. Because the gaseous knots in this supernova remnant are moving at different speeds and directions from the supernova explosion, those moving toward Earth are colored blue in this composition ...

Madam starmaker When it comes to prestige in US education, few names carry more weight than Harvard University. Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as New College, Harvard is the US’s oldest institution of higher education. People today might think of Harvard for its legal and business studies but from its early days it was known as a centre of scientific research. Less known is the role that women played at Harvard in developing astronomy as a science. Prominent ...