Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World. Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) On Saturday, December…
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An image of comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) taken November 13, 2021, from June Lake in California. Credit & Copyright: Dan E. Bartlett Now is the…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NCG 7329, captured with Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet,…
New research led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher could explain why the heliosphere, a protective magnetic “force field” emanating from our sun and encompassing our…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6891. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of…
[embedded content] What’s Up for December? Your early evening highlights, a chance to catch a comet, and the annual Geminid meteors. On December 6th through…
Supernova remnants, such as the Crab Nebula, are made of debris from exploded stars. Over the years, the Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope (often…
During a total solar eclipse, the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up so that the Sun is blocked when viewed from within the Moon’s shadow…
Credit: M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Researchers have predicted the new class of star’s existence for 50 years but until now, never observed…
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…
A close up of a solar eruption, including a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a solar energetic particle event. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space…
Middle panel: Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7479 created from observations at visible and near-infrared wavelengths with 20 cm radio continuum contours in yellow.…
‘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.…
An artist’s impression of a close pair of black holes. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large TelescopeThe Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a…
Credit: Jayanne English/EMU/Dark Energy Survey Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen…
Graphic of the sun, solar winds, and itokawa. Credit: Curtin University Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team In…
The Spanish-Mexican team has found that the boundary between those objects which destroy lithium and those which preserve it lies at 51.5 times the mass…