Sagittarius A* in 60 Seconds Narrator (April Hobart, CXC): Scientists have long known that the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a particularly poor eater. Unlike some of its more...
What is at the center of the universe? It's an essential question that humans have been wondering about for centuries. But the journey toward an answer has been a strange one. If you wanted to...
Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to forecast a future cosmic pile up: the titanic collision of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in about four billion years time. Brought to you...
Galactic Ridge in 60 Seconds Narrator (Megan Watzke, CXC): This sequence begins with an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the central region of the Milky Way. We then zoom into a...
This incredible image, taken from a space telescope, shows a galaxy being ripped apart. The Hubble Space Telescope took the picture of this galaxy trailing stars and dust, as it moved through a...
They traveled for a long time but found nothing. However, at the very last minute, they found a glimmer of light. The Voyager roamed the space and just before leaving the solar system it sent a photo...
NGC 3393 in 60 Seconds (April Hobart, CXC): Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the...
"Hi, I'm Dr. Andrea Ghez, and I'm a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA. I study the center of our galaxy. The original objective was to figure out if there's a...
BY LOGAN TITTLE It’s the end of the world as we know it — well, as far as scientists have figured out. Here’s KTBC. “…observations from the Hubble Space telescope detail a long anticipated galactic...