Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum & C. O’Dea (RIT), R. Perley & W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) An X-ray telescope designed…
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Artist’s illustration of a pair of merging neutron stars. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University A team of international scientists, led by the Galician Institute of…
Illustration of the origin of magnetic fields in white dwarfs in close binaries (to be read counter clockwise). The magnetic field appears when a crystallizing…
This animation shows the top view of a Millisecond Pulsar. Credit: NASA A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters…
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Credit: Marty Harris, McDonald Observatory, UT Austin The universe we see is only the very tip of the vast cosmic iceberg. The…
Fundamentals such as how many hours are in a Venusian day provide critical data for understanding the divergent histories of Venus and Earth, UCLA researchers…
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have announced the discovery of an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of galaxy cluster Abell 3827. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Massey This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that…
The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. Credit: Modification…
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, helping to resolve a…
Ultrahigh-energy diffuse gamma rays (yellow points) are distributed along the Milky Way galaxy. The background color contour shows the atomic hydrogen distribution in the galactic…
[embedded content]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech May Skywatching Highlights What’s Up for May? This month, a rocky planet round-up, and a super blood Moon eclipse! May 3: The…
Exploration of the Universe by the SDSS mission during the past two decades (1998-2019). Credit: eBOSS collaboration The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) collaboration…
Artist’s conception of a violent stellar flare erupting on neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. The flare is the most powerful ever recorded from the star, and…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University General relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is best tested at its…
Artist’s impression of a galaxy with an active nucleus, a supermassive black hole in the center. When the black hole swallows matter, two powerful jets…
Artist’s impression of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet, WASP-33b. Credit: Astrobiology Center An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and…
Data from Chandra and NuSTAR provide evidence for the existence of a structure known as a “pulsar wind nebula” at the center of the Supernova…
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have announced the discovery of an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant…
This exoplanet, a gas giant called GJ 504b, is about 57 light-years away from Earth. Exoplanets like this may help researchers find and measure dark…