Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully This image from the NASAEstablished in 1958,…
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This simulation shows both how stellar bars form (left) and the bar-driven gas inflows (right). Stellar bars play an important role in galaxy evolution by…
There are numerous stars in giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze…
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that planet formation in the early stages of our Solar System began earlier than previously believed. The team found…
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2023? Some lovely groupings this month include the Moon with MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our…
This image of the Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132) was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). Credit: Science: NASA, CSA, ESA,…
OzGrav, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at Swinburne, has received an additional $35 million in funding to continue their…
This artist’s impression shows a magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada According to a new study the X-ray light emitted by…
A swath of sky measuring 2% of the area covered by the full moon was imaged with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in eight filters, and…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6355, globular cluster that lies less than 50,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen…
An illustration of the variations among the more than 5,000 known exoplanets discovered since the 1990s. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new model explains the rarity of…
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods…
NASA visualization of the Milky Way’s Fermi bubbles. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.” A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan…
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with the black hole appearing in the center and its companion star on the left. New measurements…
Dark matter is a fundamental component of the standard cosmological model, but its mysteries remain unsolved. One of the biggest puzzles is the lack of…
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years. If an alien were to look at Earth,…
Galaxy cluster Abell 370, located about 4 billion light-years away, contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
10 Times This Year the Webb Telescope Blew Astronomers Away With Stunning New Images of Our Universe
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina…
Artist’s impression of GRB 211211A. The kilonova and gamma-ray burst is on the right. The blue color represents material squeezed along the poles, while the red…