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Heart of darkness: A view of the accretion disc around the supermassive black hole, with jet-like structures flowing away from the disc. The extreme mass…
U Mon’s primary star, an elderly yellow supergiant, has around twice the Sun’s mass but has billowed to 100 times the Sun’s size. Scientists know…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Coe This extraordinary image from…
Brown dwarfs are often called “failed stars.” They form like stars but are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen into helium as stars do. More…
The Crab Nebula, the six-light-year-wide expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion, hosts a neutron star spinning 30 times a second that is among…
Two groups of fibrils, marked L2 and L4, converge and reconnect with each other. Two sets of newly formed fibrils, marked L1 and L3, then…
April Highlights Morning planets, a sunset arch, and finding Leo the lion… April 7: Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon form a lovely trio in the…
This animation is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) For the first time, scientists using…
Researchers Directly Observed the C + S2 Channel in CS2 Photodissociation. Credit: DICP Studying the creation and evolution of sulfur-containing compounds in outer space is…
Photons with an energy of 200 teraelectronvolts are most likely emitted by protons colliding with interstellar gas. The primary source of protons is pulsar HAWC…
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space observatory to see further into the Universe than ever before. It is designed to answer outstanding questions…
Neptune and Uranus are the outermost two planets of our solar system and two gas giants. Credit: NASA Uranus and Neptune both have a completely…
Gas moving toward us is shown in blue and gas moving away from us is shown in red. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers…
A composite image of the USS Jellyfish in Abell 2877 showing the optical Digitised Sky Survey (background) with XMM X-ray data (magenta overlay) and MWA…
This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. Credit: European Southern Observatory We are…
The first X-rays from Uranus have been captured by Chandra during observations obtained in 2002 and 2017, a discovery that may help scientists learn more…
The newly discovered galaxy cluster CHIPS1911+4455 has a unique twisted shape compared to other rapidly cooling galaxy clusters. This image was taken with the Hubble…
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most…
These images represent radar observations of asteroid 99942 Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021, as it made its last close approach before its…