A top-down view of a black hole during the lead-up to a flare. Hot plasma initially flows into the black hole. As the magnetic field…
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Many stars in the center of the Milky Way have high heavy metal content. Credit: Michael Franklin Stars are giant factories that produce most of…
A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes is being released. The objects range from a supernova remnant…
This artist’s rendering shows a view of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its central bar as it might appear if viewed from above. Credit:…
This is an artist’s Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. The planet, which orbits closely to its…
[embedded content]This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb)…
Hubble Space Telescope image of Chamaeleon Cloud I (a segment of the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex), reveals dusty-dark clouds where stars are forming, dazzling reflection nebulae…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Following Webb’s arrival at its orbital destination around Lagrange Point 2 (L2) on January 24, the mission operations team…
Astronomers have found a way to estimate the number of stars in the universe. Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This diminutive galaxy…
Artist’s impression of WASP-189b, an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 133112 which is one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary system. Credit:…
A composite of Comet Leonard images captured December 15-16, 2021, in ultraviolet light by the Metis instrument onboard the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The comet…
In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation
Still image of several supra-arcade downflows, also described as “dark, finger-like features,” occurring in a solar flare. The downflows appear directly above the bright flare…
A mosaic image of the center of the Milky Way, captured with radiowaves. The magnetic filaments are large, vertical slashes throughout the image. Credit: Northwestern…
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make…
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce…
The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to…
The sinuous young stellar jet, MHO 2147, meanders lazily across a field of stars in this image captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory,…
Illustration of a “super Neptune,” TOI-674 b, with an atmosphere that, according to a recent study, includes water vapor. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The discovery: Water vapor…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…