A barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 7541, seen here as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in the constellation of Pisces (The Fishes).…
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[embedded content] Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary…
Artistic image of the supernova explosions of the first massive stars that formed in the milky way. The star j0815+4729 was formed from the material…
Using new geochemical models, SwRI scientists found that CO2 in Enceladus’ ocean may be controlled by chemical reactions at the seafloor. Integrating this finding with…
Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its…
Rendering of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built.…
This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are classified as G stars; stars less massive and cooler…
A galaxy named NGC 1803 as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al. This bright, somewhat blob-like…
Artist’s rendering shows G objects, with the reddish centers, orbiting the supermassive black hole. The black hole is represented as a dark sphere inside a…
This infographic shows the key results from a study that has revealed the interstellar thread of phosphorus, one of life’s building blocks.Thanks to ALMA, astronomers…
Artist’s rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Northrop Grumman How small are the smallest celestial objects that form like stars, but don’t produce…
Dust-rich outflows of evolved stars similar to the pictured Egg Nebula are plausible sources of the large presolar silicon carbide grains found in meteorites like…
The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA. A so-called “ALMA disk” as seen in infrared light around distant stars. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NSF Scientists,…
Artist’s impression of gamma-ray burst with orbiting binary star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts,…
Two galaxies in the process of merging. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble When two galaxies merge, there are brief periods of stellar baby booms. A group of astronomers…
This rendition shows ionized bubbles formed by three galaxies in galaxy cluster EGS77. Credit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA Astronomers using…
Image of the host galaxy of FRB 180916 (center) acquired with the 8-meter Gemini-North telescope of NSF’s OIR Lab on Hawaii’s Maunakea. Images acquired in…
When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black…
Galaxy NGC 2770. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a close-up view of a galaxy…
An artist created this illustration of the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b and its star. A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is…