The large radio telescope CHIME, pictured here, has detected more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation, MIT researchers report.…
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Artist’s conception of the young star Cep A HW2, showing a wide-angle wind originating close to the star and a disk of material orbiting the…
An artist’s impression shows an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser An international group of collaborators, including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
The giant Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory is a part of the Breakthrough Listen project, a huge ongoing SETI survey. Credit: Eamonn Kerins New…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists conducted a census of nearly 100 galaxies in the nearby Universe. This census helped them to characterize…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld…
NASA’s Hinode satellite captured this breathtaking image of an annular solar eclipse on January 4, 2011. Credit:NASA/Hinode/XRT On Thursday, June 10, 2021, people across the…
Spiral galaxy NGC 4680 captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This image, taken with…
(Top panel, from left to right) July 12, 2012 coronal mass ejection seen in STEREO B Cor2, SOHO C2, and STEREO A Cor2 coronagraphs, respectively.…
This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Astrophysicists have developed…
Gravitational Wave Search No Hum Drum Hunt – “Map to the Potential El Dorado of Gravitational Waves”
Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Scientists refine the search for enigmatic continuous…
A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue and purple), visible light data from VLT’s MUSE instrument (bright red), and additional…
Artist’s impression of the gas-rich debris disk. Credit: NAOJ A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller…
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the…
A newly formed star is surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. This disk, illustrated here around a brown…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess, Acknowledgement: M. Zamani This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the…
Anatomy of our Sun. Credit: ESA Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees…