Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
Posts published in “Astronomy”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close…
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…
Fully interactive, Eyes on Asteroids uses science data to help visualize asteroid and comet orbits around the Sun. Zoom in to travel along with your…
Artist’s impression of CygnusX-1. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong…
This is a composite view of X-rays, molecular gas, and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The orange-colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas.…
This image shows comet Leonard streaming through the sky on the morning of December 7, 2021, taken by ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), part…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids are caused by debris from a celestial object known as 3200 Phaethon, whose origin is the subject of some debate.…
Members of the Fornax galaxy cluster fill this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of…
Southern Cross (view from Merna Mora, South Australia). Credit: James St. John (CC BY 2.0) An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States,…
This magnificent coronal mass ejection from our sun occured in 2012. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe…
This image shows the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Centauri b. This is the first time…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
Hubble orbiting the earth as the sun rises. Credit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
Magnetic fields are produced by a dynamo mechanism inside stars and emerge through the surface to the outer atmosphere, where they generate stellar magnetic storms,…
Dark matter concept art. An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy…