Hydra-Like Asteroid Spouts 6 Tails

Hydra-Like Asteroid Spouts 6 Tails

Astronomers viewing the asteroid belt with the Hubble Telescope havd found an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel. P/2013 P5 is different from all…
Black Hole In Globular Cluster M62

Black Hole In Globular Cluster M62

Two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster are not unique - another black hole candidate has been found in globular cluster M62. The globular cluster M62 is located in the…
Doomed World Kepler-78b Delights Astronomers

Doomed World Kepler-78b Delights Astronomers

Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist because the blazing hot lava world circles its star every 8.5 hours at a distance of less than one million miles - one of the tightest known orbits.…
SDO Sees Sun Emit An M9.4 Solar Flare

SDO Sees Sun Emit An M9.4 Solar Flare

On Oct. 23rd, 2013, the sun emitted a solar flare, classified as an M9.4 flare on a scale from M1 to M9.9 - near the very top of the scale for M class flares. Solar flares are powerful bursts of…