White-light images of the solar corona during the 2019 total solar eclipses in Chile. Credit: Solar Wind Sherpas Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute…
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Knicole Colon, astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, seen with the James Webb Space Telesocpe at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, California. Credit:…
Artist’s impression of a supernova. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology A team of scientists, including Chief Investigator Ilya Mandel from the ARC Centre…
Artist’s conception illustrating a disk of water-bearing gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy. By observing maser emission from…
Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of…
Artist’s concept of a Peter Pan disk. Credit: Jonathan Holden/NASA New research from scientists at Queen Mary University of London has revealed how long-lived Peter…
A black hole including the heartbeat signal observed in 2007 and 2018. Credit: Dr Chichuan Jin, of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences…
DESI was mounted on the 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Kitt Peak National Observatory (KNPO) is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson,…
Figure 1. At the center of a quasar, a black hole is surrounded by a spinning accretion disk composed of dust and gas, and there…
A visualization of three computer simulations of terrestrial exoplanets, showing winds (arrows) and airborne dust (color scale), with an M-dwarf host star in the background.…
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the…
When a pair of young protostars called IRAS 4A was observed at millimeter wavelengths, left, the “hot corino” of complex organic molecules surrounding one of…
Researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and elsewhere, with the help of citizen scientists, have identified a brown dwarf with a disk that is…
Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC 2608. Credit:ESA/Hubble &…
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair. Among the more than 4,000…
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The sparkling centerpiece of this…
Artist’s impression of an ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbors the…
Galaxy KK 246, a dwarf irregular galaxy residing within the Local Void, looks like glitter spilled across a black velvet sheet in this Hubble image.…
What researchers have done is apply the theory of the holographic principle to black holes. In this way, their mysterious thermodynamic properties have become more…
A false-color infrared image of the Infrared Dark Cloud called “the Snake” as seen by the IRAC camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have…