A full moon rises over Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in August 2021. Credit: NASA/Preston Dyches The next full moon is called the Buck Supermoon,…
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep…
Insight-HXMT’s discovery of the fundamental electron cyclotron absorption line near 146 keV for the first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J 0243.6+6124. Credit: Image by…
This image alternates between Webb and Hubble images of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman It has been a long journey for the James Webb Space…
This image of the Orion nebula, the brightest spot in the sword of the constellation Orion, shows carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen This observation from the NASAEstablished…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space during a deployment test in…
Artist impression of the pulsar-planet system PSR B1257+12 detected in 1992. The pulsar and three radiation-doused planets are all that remains of a dead star…
Position in the sky of the different candidates of the Fermi catalog. The background map shows the minimum brightness of an anti-star for it to…
Schematic representation of the view into cosmic history provided by the bright light of distant quasars. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) allows us to…
New research finds that molecular clouds are loaded with key precursors for life on Earth. This image is of the “Pigtail” Molecular Cloud. Credit: Keio…
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the…
Manatee Nebula or W50, as captured by the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton, also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror…
The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras Gaspar The scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July…
An amateur astronomer’s keen eyes led to the discovery of an unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy. Credit: International Gemini…
Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula’s outskirts. This famously beautiful nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a frequent target…
In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way,…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sunspots are usually not a cause for concern, even if they double in size overnight and grow to be twice…
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Shown in blue on the image is a map of the…