Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the…
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Artist’s impression of one of this study’s superlative discoveries, the oldest known wide-separation white dwarf plus cold brown dwarf pair. The small white orb represents…
Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ of Texas at Arlington/M. Millard et al. Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from…
A team of researchers led by professor Brian Fields hypothesizes that a supernova about 65 light-years away may have contributed to the ozone depletion and…
An international team of researchers has discovered a dense, cold gas that’s been shot out from the center of the Milky Way “like bullets.” Exactly…
Artist’s impression of one of this study’s superlative discoveries, the oldest known wide-separation white dwarf plus cold brown dwarf pair. The small white orb represents…
A map of the coronal magnetic field strength superimposed on a coronal image taken by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Yang…
Rendering of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: Northrop Grumman The James Webb Space Telescope is an international endeavor with widespread global contributions and experts…
This spectacular image of galaxy NGC 2442 was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Smartt et al. This image…
An image from the Heliospheric Imager aboard NASA’s STEREO spacecraft shows the star Betelgeuse, circled. For several weeks in 2020, STEREO was the only observatory…
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
A Perseid meteor captured by the LIC1 camera of the Canary Long-Baseline Observatory (CILBO) on Tenerife in the early hours of 12 August 2020. The…
Astronomers using ALMA, in which the ESO is a partner, have revealed an extremely distant galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way. The galaxy,…
Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at work. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shed by the…
The double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from…
New detailed observations with NSF’s NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the Hyades cluster, that is unusually dense for its…
Scientists from the University of Valencia detect rapid changes in a black hole that may help understand the origin of gamma-ray bursts. A team from…
Scheme which represents the origin of phosphorus on Earth, with respect to possible stellar sources of phosphorus in our Galaxy. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM…