Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober…
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Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy ESO 415-19, , which lies around 450 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy…
One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The new study shows that…
Astronomers from Rice University and other organizations dug deep into the data from this near-infrared image, one of the first taken by NASA’s James Webb…
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of…
This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it’s possible to see hot spots where…
Astrophysicists have devised a new way to verify the existence of the supermassive black hole Leo I*. A behemoth black holeA black hole is a…
An artist’s concept of the Kepler-1658 system. Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by Kepler. Credit:…
Image of the Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman After numerous setbacks, 20 years of development, a hefty $10 billion…
“Water Worlds” – Astronomers Discover That Two Exoplanets Are Unlike Any Planets in Our Solar System
Cross-section of the Earth (left) and the exoplanet Kepler-138 d (right). Like the Earth, this exoplanet has an interior composed of metals and rocks (brown…
Illustration of Saturn and its rings. All of the outer gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — have rings around them. Planets…
An artist’s conception of the Milky Way. Using data from the Gaia satellite telescope, a team headed by Lund University researchers in Sweden discovered that…
The VLT’s Laser Guide Star: A laser beam launched from VLT’s 8.2-meter Yepun telescope crosses the majestic southern sky and creates an artificial star at…
An artist’s rendition of a red supergiant star transitioning into a Type II supernova, emitting a violent eruption of radiation and gas on its dying…
Hubble Space Telescope image of open cluster NGC 6530. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, O. De Marco, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This image from the…
An artist’s impression of the planet Janssen, which orbits its star so closely that its entire surface is a lava ocean that reaches temperatures of…
Artist’s conception of the Webb Telescope in space. Credit: NASA Astronomers report the most distant known galaxies — detected and confirmed by the James Webb…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Andi James (STScI) Exhaust…