Image Credit & Copyright: Marco LorenziExplanation: How do clusters of galaxies form and evolve? To help find out, astronomers continue to study the second closest cluster of galaxies to Earth: the Fornax cluster, named for the southern constellation toward...
Illustration Credit: NASA, F. Fressin (Harvard CfA)Explanation: How common are Earth-sized planets? Quite common, according to extrapolations from new data taken by NASA’s orbiting Kepler spacecraft. Current computer models are indicating that at least one in ten stars are orbited by...
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the United States’ largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system,...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – ESA/Hubble CollaborationExplanation: Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and...
Edited by Brian Tomlinson: http://www.btprints.com Original stills for the time lapse sequences courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Music: ‘Eve’ by Emancipator. http://www.emancipatormusic.com
