Black hole and accretion disk. Credit: T. Müller (MPIA) The exciting finding promises numerous similar discoveries. Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have…
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The formation of the solar system remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy and planetary science. Scientists believe that the solar system formed around…
Artist’s rendition of oxygen, sodium, and potassium aurorae as Io enters Jupiter’s shadow. Credit: Chris Faust Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in…
Illustration showing the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and VIRUS spectrograph pairs mounted on either side of the telescope. Credit: McDonald Observatory/HETDEX Collaboration Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)…
A trio of faint objects (circled) captured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 exhibit properties remarkably similar…
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team A study conducted by the University of Southampton has uncovered the process…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] In an unprecedented galaxy-mapping endeavor, astronomers have enlisted over 10,000 amateur scientists across 85 countries to aid their ambitious mission.…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a trio of merging galaxies in the Boötes constellation. (This is a cropped image. See the full image below.) Credit:…
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a galaxy cluster (SMACS0723). The five zoomed in galaxies are so far away that we observe…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits Earth in this illustration. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses…
This artist’s impression shows how the rings might look from close to the surface of Chariklo. Credit: NASA/JPL In an observational feat of high precision,…
Artist impress of Quaoar rings. Credit: Paris Observatory ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar During a break from looking at planets…
New research reveals that the mass of newly born stars (yellow, orange, and red circles stand for stars from higher to lower mass) varies with…
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by…
This image by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Donatiello II, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies. Credit:…
Researchers have discovered new indications that red giants frequently experience large-scale structural variations, or “glitches,” in the inner core. Recent findings indicate that a significant…
Elnath, which is also known as Beta Tauri, is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Taurus. Credit: WikiSky What are some skywatching highlights in…