These four galaxies are part of a large survey of more than 100 galaxies conducted by Chandra that looked for evidence of growing black holes.…
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One of the variant fragments of the Bamboo Annals, an excerpt from the Ancient Text of the Bamboo Annals cited in (b) Tàipíng Yùlan (v.…
The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. From long to short wavelength, the EM spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible…
Artist’s impression of a rare kind of stellar merger event between two white dwarf stars. Credit: Nicole Reindl A German team of astronomers from the…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5477, an archetypal dwarf galaxy in the Messier 101 group. Without obvious structure, but with visible signs of ongoing…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the upper left portion of the…
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. This artist’s animation shows some…
A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large TelescopeThe Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a visible and infrared…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptune’s global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic…
This artist’s conception of the Mira star system depicts Mira A (right), a highly evolved red giant star, and Mira B (left), a white dwarf.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of two merging galaxies in the VV689 system — nicknamed the Angel Wing. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel, Acknowledgement: J.…
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disc encircling the 20-million-year-old…
Artist’s illustration of a neutron star binary. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron starA neutron star is…
Orbiting 500 km above the earth, the Fermi Large Area Telescope collects gamma rays from millisecond pulsars. As these high-energy photons travel across the Milky…
An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a true technological marvel. The largest and most complex space telescope ever built, Webb is able to gather light…
This April full moon is known as the pink moon because it heralds the arrival of spring flowers. The next full moon is the Pink…
Nova outbursts are apparently a source for cosmic rays. The MAGIC telescopes have observed the nova RS Ophiuchi shining brightly in gamma rays at extremely…
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…