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This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793, a spiral...

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793, a spiral…

[ad_1] This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Sculptor some 13 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 7793 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Sculptor Group, one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group — the group of galaxies containing our galaxy, the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The image shows…

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Strong Pacific Storm System Affecting West Coast This image was taken by the GO...

Strong Pacific Storm System Affecting West Coast This image was taken by the GO…

[ad_1] Strong Pacific Storm System Affecting West Coast This image was taken by the GOES West satellite on December 10, 2014. This strong Pacific storm system was forecast to bring some drought relief to California and Oregon through December 10, 2014. An atmospheric river of moisture, or pineapple express, was expected ahead of this system, tapping moisture from the tropics. This led to a swath…

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms…

[ad_1] This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes, which are seen against a background of myriad stars. The near-infrared light can penetrate much of the gas and dust, revealing stars behind the nebula as well as hidden away inside the pillars. Some of the gas and dust clouds are so dense that even the near-infrared…

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The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplan...

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplan…

[ad_1] The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplankton bloom near Alaska’s Pribilof Islands on Sept. 22, 2014. The Pribilofs are surrounded by nutrient-rich waters in the Bering Sea. The milky green and light blue shading of the water indicates the presence of vast populations of microscopic phytoplankton—mostly coccolithophores, which have calcite scales that…

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Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image e...

Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image e…

[ad_1] https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t50.2886-16/10946812_800528649982335_1105349436_n.mp4Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble…

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An unusual comet is skirting past the Sun (Feb.18-21, 2015). "It's a 'non-group ...

An unusual comet is skirting past the Sun (Feb.18-21, 2015). “It’s a ‘non-group …

[ad_1] https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t50.2886-16/11017892_1593751284219230_1467929924_n.mp4An unusual comet is skirting past the Sun (Feb.18-21, 2015). “It’s a ‘non-group comet,’ meaning that it does not appear to be related to any other comet or comet family that we have on record,” explains Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab. Most comets that SOHO sees belong to the Kreutz family.…

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Eddies in the Southern Ocean -- The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasion...

Eddies in the Southern Ocean — The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasion…

[ad_1] Eddies in the Southern Ocean — The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasionally parts as it did on January 1, 2015 just west of the Drake Passage where the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite glimpsed the above collection of ocean-color delineated eddies which have diameters ranging from a couple of kilometers to a couple of hundred kilometers. Recent studies indicate that eddy…

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In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronome...

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronome…

[ad_1] In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar “baby boom,” churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster than today. Our sun, however, is a late “boomer.” The Milky Way’s star-birthing frenzy peaked 10 billion years ago, but our sun was late for the party, not forming until…

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