Mars solar conjunction. Credit: NASA Every day for over two decades, the U.S. has had a presence at MarsMars is the second smallest planet in…
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The slumbering giant galaxy at the center of this image is 10 billion light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Newman, M. Akhshik, K. Whitaker…
Credit: ESA/Hubble, A. Riess et al., J. Greene Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using…
[embedded content] Since 2020, a “sonification” project has transformed astronomical data from some of the world’s most powerful telescopes into sound. Three new objects —…
Magnetic field in the massive star-forming region IRAS 18089-1732 revealed by ALMA. The colors represent the intensity of the radio waves, and the lines depict…
This composite image shows three radio-telescope views of the central region of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), where a jet of fast-moving particles is ejected…
The 17 newly studied craters and depressions are located near the South Pole. While the smallest of these regions (region 11) has a size of…
Credit: Reaktor Space Lab Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over…
Astronomers have discovered a giant, spherical cavity within the Milky Way galaxy; its location is depicted on the right. A zoomed in view of the…
Partially processed view of the Tycho Crater at a resolution of nearly five meters by five meters and containing approximately 1.4 billion pixels, taken during…
A detailed look at the gamma-ray sky. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma-rays that until now had not been associated…
Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling starfield that contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R.…
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, torn to shreds as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The…
A full Moon, known as a Harvest Moon, rises over Washington on September 19, 2013. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Next Full Moon is the Harvest…
This composite image of ALMA data from the young star HD 163296 shows hydrogen cyanide emission laid over an artist’s impression of a starfield. The…
Artist’s conception of the explosion resulting from the collision of two neutron stars. Credit: D. Berry, O. Gottlieb, K. Mooley, G. Hallinan, NRAO/AUI/NSF The National…
Figure 1. (a) WISE false color image of Pa 30 where blue and green stand for 11 μm emission, and red for 22 μm. Here,…
An artist’s impression of the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star. The inset shows the molecular gas targeted by the…
Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the…
A quarter of Sun-like stars eat their own planets, according to new research. How rare is our Solar System? In the 30 years or so…