Artistic rendition of the exoplanet TOI-1452 b, a small planet that may be entirely covered in a deep ocean. Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal…
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This illustration depicts a brown dwarf – an object that is too heavy to be characterized as a planet, but not massive enough to power…
This illustration shows what exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like, based on the current understanding of the planet.WASP-39 b is a hot, puffy gas giant…
Dark energy illustration. Credit: Visualization by Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute. Simulation by Martin White, UC Berkeley and Lars Hernquist, Harvard University Could one…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the Veil Nebula reveals the fine details of the nebula’s delicate threads and filaments of ionized gas. Credit: ESA/Hubble…
Artist’s illustration of a planetary disk, a region of dust and gas where planets form. The zoom-in insert displays carbon monoxide molecules in the ice…
Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1156. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. B. Tully, R. Jansen, R. Windhorst The galaxy featured in this Hubble Picture…
An enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter.…
Artist’s illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists…
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. On the boom to the right, the Cosmic Ray Science instrument, Low Energy Charged Particle detector, the Infrared…
This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well-studied objects in…
The emission from M87 has now been resolved into a bright, thin ring (orange colormap), arising from the infinite sequence of additional images of the…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On December 25th, 2021, after many years of anticipation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space.…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. University of ChicagoFounded in 1890, the University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C,…
A new Caltech project, called COMAP, will offer us a new glimpse into the early epoch of galaxy assembly. New COMAP radio survey will peer…
The first of six SunRISE SmallSats is shown here at a Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory clean room being worked on by engineers. Pointed…
A unique ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy thanks to the sharp eyes of an amateur astronomer…
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The next full moon is a marginal supermoon and…
This artist’s concept shows distant fast radio bursts piercing the gaseous halos around galaxies in the local universe. The radio bursts are depicted traveling from…