Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This vibrant…
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Perseid meteor shower time-lapse photo. Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on…
Jupiter, center, and its moon Europa, left, are seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and…
A large pink, speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval, with dusty blue in between on the right, with two smaller spiral…
What’s Up for August 2022? Grab your binoculars for planet viewing, the outlook for the Perseids, and flying with Cygnus the swan. What are some…
This star-studded Hubble Space Telescope image shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. To capture the data in this…
The doughnut-shaped ring surrounding many supermassive black holes tells researchers about how fast the space object is feeding and can change how the black hole…
Beginning a Journey Across the Universe: The Discovery of Extragalactic Neutrino Factories. Credit: © Benjamin Amend For the first time, researchers reveal the origin of…
Zeta Ophiuchi was once in close orbit with another star, before being ejected when this companion was destroyed in a supernova explosion. Infrared data from…
A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist’s concept of a black widow pulsar. The…
A Hubble image of a red galaxy acting as a gravitational lens for a more distant blue galaxy, bending its light into an arc. Exoplanets…
There are almost 30,000 known asteroids according to the Center for Near Earth Studies. While few pose an immediate threat, there is a chance one…
Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own. A stellar-mass…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of a gravitationally lensed galaxy that is identified as SGAS J143845+145407. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Rigby This intriguing observation from…
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 39 light-years from Earth and may have water and clouds, as depicted in…
Artist’s impression of the common-envelope evolution in a binary system J 1920. Credit: Jingchuan Yu Chinese and Australian Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Binary Common…
A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study,…
“Boom, Boom, Boom” – MIT Astronomers Detect a Strange “Heartbeat” Billions of Light-Years From Earth
Astronomers detected a persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to flash with surprising regularity. Named FRB 20191221A, this fast radio burst, or…