ESO 137 in 60 Seconds Narrator (Megan Watzke, CXC): Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy known as ESO 137. This composite image shows X-rays from Chandra in...
What's Up for July? Dark nebulae near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Hello and welcome! I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California....
Music Music Narrator: Not far from the colorful nebula M78, in a dark cloud where stars are being formed, a young star announced its presence by lighting up a nebula never cataloged before....
30 Doradus is a place where stars are born literally. This region, which is also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is located about 160,000 light years from Earth. Within 30 Doradus, giant stars are...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have seen dramatic changes in the atmosphere of a faraway planet. Just after a violent stellar flare bathed it in intense X-ray radiation, the...
This is the ESOcast! Cutting-edge science and life behind the scenes at ESO, the European Southern Observatory. Our natural satellite, captured in fine detail by the 2.2-metre. A near-infrared filter...
The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest sources of high-energy radiation in the sky. Little wonder - it's the expanding remains of an exploded star, a supernova seen in 1054. Scientists have...
Hello Space Fans and welcome to another edition of Space Fan News. Did you know that not only do we have space telescopes sensitive enough to detect planets as they pass in front of a star, but they...

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What I intended to do with this talk was working on the basis that it would be clear outside. What I will advertise is that we have an astronomical society here at the OU, and the "OU Astro...
Almost all astronomers agree on the theory of the Big Bang, that the entire Universe is spreading apart, with distant galaxies speeding away from us in all directions. Run the clock backwards to 13.8...