Giant Galaxy Cluster Magnifies the Light from a Distant Supernova and Splits It into Multiple Images People over the centuries haven’t been shy about making…
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[embedded content]Scientists using data from NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt This comparison view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the…
In this image, the fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy, is depicted.…
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
These eleven images are of the asteroid Kleopatra, viewed at different angles as it rotates. The images were taken at different times between 2017 and…
On the left, one of the ultra-diffuse galaxies that was analyzed in the simulation. On the right, the image of the DF2 galaxy, which is…
Clouds and streams of cosmic pristine gas (magenta) accrete onto the Milky Way, but this gas does not efficiently mix in the Galactic disk, as…
Artist’s impression of a jet spiraling out of a protostar. Credit: Kyushu University, All rights reserved It is known that gas jets are ejected from…
To investigate the physics underpinning white dwarf evolution, astronomers compared cooling white dwarfs in two massive collections of stars: the globular clusters M3 and M13.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster NGC 6717. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini This star-studded image from the NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
This illustration shows a massive star that is about to explode. The explosion was triggered after its dead-star companion (a black hole or neutron star)…
An artist’s conception of cold planet distribution throughout the Milky Way. For comparison, the cyan cone is the Kepler transit survey field. The inset shows…
This animation shows asteroid 2016 AJ193 rotate as it was observed by Goldstone’s 70-meter (230 foot) antenna on Aug. 22, 2021. Three-quarters of a mile…
Wolf-Rayet star. Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA – Processing: Judy Schmidt Nearby star-forming region yields clues to the formation of our solar system. The…
Fast-moving debris from a supernova explosion triggered by a stellar collision crashes into gas thrown out earlier, and the shocks cause bright radio emission seen…
This image depicts a young star named GM Aur eating up gas and dust particles of a protoplanetary disk, which is represented by the green…
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…
This mosaic shows the entire sky imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Infrared light refers to wavelengths that are longer than those visible…