Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf, featuring the cloudy atmosphere of a planet and the residual light of an almost-star. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL Scientists tapped into…
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An artistic rendering of generic stellar streams in the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, SSC & Caltech Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500…
Galaxy NGC 4535, a barred spiral galaxy located some 54 million light years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, as imaged by the Hubble Space…
The United States Post office announced on January 15, 2021, that they would be releasing a series of stamps highlighting images of the Sun captured…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar yet. J1818.0-1607 is located about 21,000…
An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after…
A secret behind the workings of sunquakes – seismic activity on the Sun during solar flares – might be hidden beneath the solar surface. These…
Interactions with binary companions shape the stellar winds blowing from elderly stars, generating the dazzling array of complex shapes found in the planetary nebulae they…
This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago. The stellar corpse, a supernova…
Magnetic field streamlines detected by SOFIA are shown over an image of the Whirlpool galaxy, M51, from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. For the first time,…
This artist’s concept shows the planet KOI-5Ab transiting across the face of a sun-like star, which is part of a triple-star system located 1,800 light-years…
This six-minute visual exploration of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showcases the characteristics and contents of this landmark observation, as well as its four-dimensional nature…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng On January 13, 2021, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced its first lunar transit of the year…
Gamma-ray bursts, as shown in this illustration, are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They emit most of their energy in gamma rays, light…
Newton’s Principia: A Story of Lost and Stolen Books and Scrupulous Detective Work Across Continents
Newton’s Principia: A Story of Lost and Stolen Books and Scrupulous Detective Work Across Continents
Caltech’s own copy of the first edition of the Principia is part of the Institute’s Archives and Special Collections. In the 18th century, it belonged…
An international team of astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar in the Universe, fully formed around 670 million years after the Big Bang. Credit:…
As the universe evolves, matter concentrations are surrounded by gas halos getting hotter and bigger. Credit: D. Nelson / Illustris Collaboration The universe is getting…
Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through…
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope reveals a new type of star in X-ray light. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, L. Oskinova/University Potsdam, Germany This image shows a new type…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Folatelli First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy that lies in the southern…