The appearance of the Moon during the May 2022 total lunar eclipse. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On the night of May 15, 2022, and…
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The supernova known as 2014C took place eight years ago—but scientists are still watching and learning from its aftermath. The very faintly visible explosion is…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: EHT Collaboration Team reveals…
This illustration is an artist’s impression of the thin, rocky debris disc discovered around the two Hyades white dwarfs. Rocky asteroids are thought to have…
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESOCreated in 1962, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is a 16-nation…
Meet Sagittarius A* – Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of…
An artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Credit: Image courtesy of ESA/AOES Medialab Today (May 12, 2022) at…
This is an artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. It will eventually…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 (Caldwell 62), which has the nickname the Needle’s Eye. Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Feng…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is…
Elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Credit: NASA, ESA, R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk…
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager…
Hubble’s 2021 images of Jupiter track the ever-changing landscape of its turbulent atmosphere, where several new storms are making their mark. Credit: NASA, ESA, A.…
This artist’s illustration shows supernova 2013ge, with its companion star at the lower right. The companion star is impacted by the blast wave from the…
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Avoiding distortions of the atmosphere, Hubble has an unobstructed view…
The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras Gaspar The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team…
This artist’s impression shows the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star. 55 Cancri e is about 40 light-years away and…
As part of NASA’s Black Hole Week, two new sonifications of well-known black holes have been released. Two new sonifications of well-known black holes have…
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Completion of NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Animation depicting a black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde The system, which may have originated near…