![]() ssc2020-12a 06.22.20 HIP 67522 b: The Youngest Known Hot JupiterThis artwork illustrates the newly-discovered the exoplanet HIP 67522 b, which appears to be the youngest hot Jupiter... view image |
![]() ssc2020-11b 04.29.20 Sizes of Black Holes in Galaxy OJ 287 Relative to the Solar SystemTwo supermassive black holes are locked in an orbital dance at the core of the distant galaxy OJ 287. This diagram sh... view image |
![]() ssc2020-11a 04.28.20 Black Hole Disk Flare in Galaxy OJ 287This image shows two massive black holes in the OJ 287 galaxy. The smaller black hole orbits the larger one, which is... view image |
![]() ssc2020-09b 04.09.20 Brown Dwarf ComparisonBrown dwarfs are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars. Generally speaking, they have between 1... view image |
![]() ssc2020-09a 04.09.20 Windy Brown DwarfFor the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, pictured here in an illustration. ... view image |
![]() ssc2020-04a 01.28.20 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Wide)This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant planet discove... view image |
![]() ssc2020-04b 01.28.20 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Tall)This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant planet discove... view image |
![]() ssc2020-05a 01.24.20 Spitzer in Space: Final VoyageThis artist's concept depicts NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear to an observer at the e... view image |
![]() ssc2020-05d 01.24.20 Spitzer in Space: Infrared Final VoyageThis artist's concept depicts NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its missi... view image |
![]() ssc2020-05c 01.24.20 Spitzer in Space: Infrared Final Voyage (Portrait)This artist's concept depicts NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its missi... view image |
![]() ssc2020-05b 01.24.20 Spitzer in Space: Final Voyage (Portrait)This artist's concept depicts NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear to an observer at the e... view image |
![]() ssc2019-14c 08.19.19 Dark World (Full)This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwar... view image |
![]() ssc2019-14b 08.19.19 Detecting the Infrared Glow of a Dark WorldThis infographic illustrates how astronomers using NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the LHS 3844b system... view image |
![]() ssc2019-14a 08.19.19 Dark WorldThis artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwar... view image |
![]() ssc2019-12a 07.02.19 NASA's Great Observatories Probe New Class of ExoplanetThis artist's illustration shows the theoretical internal structure of the exoplanet GJ 3470 b. It is unlike any plan... view image |
![]() ssc2019-09a 06.04.19 Spitzer Final Voyage PosterA poster celebrating Spitzer Final Voyage. On January 30th 2020, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will complete its mis... view image |
![]() ssc2019-06b 05.08.19 First Galaxy Illustration ApproximationThis artist's illustration shows what one of the very first galaxies in the universe might have looked like. High lev... view image |
![]() ssc2018-10a 08.09.18 Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121bThese simulated views of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b show what the planet might look like to the human eye from fi... view image |
![]() ssc2018-08c 06.16.18 TDE observed in Arp299BA diagram showing the components of the TDE observed in Arp299B. view image |
![]() ssc2018-08b 06.15.18 Black Hole vs. Star: A Tidal Disruption Event (Artist's Concept)An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive... view image |
![]() ssc2018-08a 06.15.18 A Tidal Disruption Event in Arp299BAn image of the galaxy Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A, captured by NASA's Hubble space t... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04d 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Compared to Jovian Moons and Inner Solar System - Feb. 2018All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercu... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04e 02.05.18 Comparing TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar SystemThis graph presents known properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (labeled b thorugh h), showing how they stack... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b1 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04c 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Data - Feb. 2018This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, dist... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b2 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018 (unannotated)This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04a 02.05.18 Illustration of TRAPPIST-1 Planets as of Feb. 2018This illustration shows the seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1. The image does not show the planets' orbits to sc... view image |
![]() ssc2018-03a 01.22.18 "Wrong-way" Winds on CoRoT-2bThis illustration depicts the strange case of the backwards hotspot researchers have found on the hot exoplanet known... view image |
![]() ssc2017-18a 11.29.17 WASP-18b Artist's ConceptWASP-18b is an exoplanet located 325 light-years from Earth. The planet's mass is 10 times that of Jupiter, and it or... view image |
![]() ssc2017-17a 11.16.17 55 Cancri e with AtmosphereThe super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist's concept, likely has an atmosphere thic... view image |
![]() ssc2017-16a 11.01.17 Polluted White DwarfThis artist's concept shows an exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf. view image |
![]() ssc2017-12a 10.11.17 Giant Exoplanet and Debris DiskThis artist's rendering shows a large exoplanet causing small bodies to collide in a disk of dust. view image |
![]() ssc2017-11a 10.04.17 Dusty Ring Around Boyajians StarThis illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbitingKIC 8462852, also known as Boyajians Star or Tab... view image |
![]() ssc2017-10a 08.17.17 Brown Dwarf WeatherThis artist's concept shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune and the oth... view image |
![]() ssc2017-09a 08.11.17 TRAPPIST-1 System - Artist ConceptThis illustration shows what the TRAPPIST-1 system might look like from a vantage point near planet TRAPPIST-1f. view image |
![]() ssc2017-07a 05.25.17 Massive Star Goes Out With a Whimper Instead of a Bang (Artist's Concept)Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some extremely massive stars go out wi... view image |
![]() ssc2017-06a 05.11.17 Warm Neptune HAT-P-26bThe atmosphere of the distant "warm Neptune" HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primari... view image |
![]() ssc2017-03a 04.26.17 Iceball Planet Artist's ConceptThis artist's concept shows OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, a planet discovered through a technique called microlensing. The pl... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01f 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Statistics TableThis chart shows, on the top row, artist conceptions of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, d... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01h 02.22.17 The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable ZoneThe TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven planets, all around the size of Earth.Three of them -- TRAPPIST-1e, f... view image |