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The optical image from the CFHT telescope with the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the form of a large ring shown in red as observed…
The red galaxy at the center is a dying galaxy at 12 billion years ago. Astronomers measured the motion of stars in the galaxy and…
[embedded content] What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020? The peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, Mars rises with its “rival” — the red…
Radio image of Jupiter made with ALMA. Bright bands indicate high temperatures and dark bands low temperatures. The dark bands correspond to the zones on…
HR 5183 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 3.23 Jupiters, it takes 74 years to complete one…
The globular clusters studied (lower right insets), indicated by colored circles, are located in the outer halo of the Andromeda Galaxy, beyond the bright disk…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al. This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust, and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO…
This illustration depicts the Sun-like star Kepler 51 and three giant planets that NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered in 2012–2014. These planets are all roughly…
Astronomers reveal new image of candy cane-shaped feature in the center of our galaxy. This image combines archival infrared (blue), radio (red) and new microwave…
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety.…
On its first two flybys of the sun, the Princeton-led instrument IS?IS onboard the Parker Solar Probe detected a surprising variety of activities by solar…
Composite view of an observation showing thousands of galaxies in radio light and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in the South African Karoo semidesert. The…
A collection of gas and dust over 500 light-years across, the Perseus Molecular Cloud hosts an abundance of young stars. It was imaged here by…
This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This black hole was chosen as the…
This illustration depicts a gas halo surrounding a quasar in the early Universe. The quasar, in orange, has two powerful jets and a supermassive black…
Artist’s impression of an exoplanet smaller than Neptune. A new study suggests a reason why such planets rarely grow larger than Neptune: the planet’s magma…
The central zone of our galaxy hosts the Milky Way’s largest, densest collection of giant molecular clouds, raw material for making tens of millions of…
A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter’s south pole taken on November 4, 2019, during…
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…