This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy 1ES 1927+654 before its recent…
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Hubble Space Telescope image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 3227 on the left and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3226 on the right. Credit: NASA,…
Superimposed Hubble images of Jupiter and Mars. Credit: Jupiter: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), Mars:…
The universe’s expansion rate is accelerating. The unknown energy source causing this acceleration is called Dark Energy. Credit: Visualization by Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with…
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. Credit: Original image by…
Simulation of binary star. Credit: From the scientific article by Jørgensen, Kuruwita et al. Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, a pair of spiral galaxies located about 800 million light-years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster Liller 1. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro The subdued red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1…
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a…
NASA’s Lucy mission, which launched on October 16, 2021, for the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with…
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey In our sun’s cosmic neighborhood…
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System. Credit: Northrup Grumman The…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American…
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this artist’s concept traveling through space against a field of stars, has been exploring our solar system since 1977,…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, which has the nickname, Hidden Galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, P.…
When a star explodes in a supernova, it sometimes leaves a remnant that has a ring shape, such as seen here in this illustration of…