This magnificent galaxy, NGC 2835, resides near the head of the southern constellation of Hydra, the water snake. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee, and…
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Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. Credit: Z.-H. Yang et al., Science (2020) An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from…
Crews at SLAC have taken the first 3,200-megapixel images with the complete focal plane of the LSST Camera, the future “eye” of Vera C. Rubin…
Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and…
Artist’s conception of waves trapped between the surface of a sunspot (lower image, taken with the GREGOR Fabry-Perot Interferometer) and the transition region (upper image,…
Scientists from Japan have found concluding evidence for the presence of a particular complex organic molecule in the regions of less dense gas clouds for…
Matter from the surrounding protoplanetary disk, the birthplace of planets, is channeled onto the stellar surface by magnetic fields shocking the surface at supersonic velocity.…
Europe’s largest solar telescope GREGOR reveals intricate structures of solar magnetic fields in very high resolution. The image was taken at the wavelength of 516…
Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
A view of the gas in the Magellanic System as it would appear in the night sky. The Magellanic Corona covers the entire sky while…
The graphic shows the signal connecting the CONSERT instrument on Philae, on the surface of the comet, to the one on the Rosetta orbiter. The…
This selection of images of different kinds of light from various missions and telescopes have been combined to better understand the universe. Each composite image…
Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai Many colorful stars are packed close together in this image of the globular cluster NGC 1805, taken by the…
New predictions are tightly connected to how large neutron stars grow and what elements are likely synthesized in neutron star mergers. Credit: NASA In atomic…
A lopsided merger of two black holes may have unusual origins, based on a reanalysis of LIGO data. Credit: MIT News Researchers suggest a novel…
A member of the L3Harris team removes a cloth from the Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror. Credit: L3Harris Technologies The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s…
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist’s concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling onto it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The process occurs…
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only…
ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the…