Image of the interacting galaxy pair NGC 5394/5 obtained with NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory’s Gemini North 8-meter telescope on Hawai’i’s Maunakea using the…
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Artist impression of what MAMBO-9 would look like in visible light. The galaxy is very dusty and it has yet to build most of its…
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this…
First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Enceladus’ “tiger stripes” are like nothing else known in our Solar System. Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI,…
These are glass particles colliding in microgravity. Credit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser, and Felix Jungmann Scientists may have figured out how dust particles…
Figure 1. Dark matter drives structural formation and constructs potential wells where galaxies may form. This figure illustrates structure in the simulated universe, in a…
‘Switchbacks’ of faster solar wind emerge from coronal holes near the sun’s equator. Credit: Ronan Laker/GONG/NASA/HelioPy/PFSSPy The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer…
This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, the extreme…
The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1…
Illustration of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to…
The giant planet is orbiting the white dwarf just outside the gas disc. The blast of high-energy photons that it receives from the white dwarfs…
The SWAP instrument aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has confirmed that the solar wind slows as it travels farther from the Sun. This schematic of…
[embedded content] What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
This image contains a black hole that is triggering star formation across the longest distance ever seen. As hot gas swirls around the black hole,…
Accretion of gas onto a stellar black hole from its blue companion star, through a truncated accretion disk (Artist impression). Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium,…
The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the Crab nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula’s eerie interior bluish glow. The blue…
The Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, a portion of which is pictured here, is searching for a signal emitted during the formation of the first…
Composite image of the galaxy NGC 4631, the “Whale Galaxy,” revealing large magnetic structures. Credit: Composite image by Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba,…
The fingerprint of protonated C60. Credit: Radboud University It is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon…