Artist’s impression of the old white dwarfs WDJ2147-4035 and WDJ1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres.…
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Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe. Credit: A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific…
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, have uncovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. It is also the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass…
Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068. Credit: NASA / ESA / A. van der Hoeven Evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the galaxy…
The Dark Energy Camera has taken countless photos. Here are 15 of the most spectacular. The Dark Energy Camera has taken more than a million…
An illustration of a mass-quantized black hole, created using NightCafe Creator AI. Credit: University of Queensland Bizarre quantum properties of black holes – including their…
This image shows a spectacular view of the orange and pink clouds that make up what remains after the explosive death of a massive star…
Astrophysicists have made a puzzling discovery while analyzing certain star clusters. The finding challenges Newton’s laws of gravity. Instead, the observations are consistent with the…
Webb’s view of the extremely red quasar SDSS J165202.64+172852.3. The quasar SDSS J165202.64+172852.3 is depicted here by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to demonstrate…
The two galaxies swirl into a single chaotic object in the center. Long, blue spiral arms stretch vertically, faint at the edges. Hot gas spreads…
An artist’s impression of two colliding black holes. Researchers have identified a peculiar twisting motion in the orbits of two colliding black holes, an exotic…
Hubble Space Telescope portrait showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around 1350 light-years from Earth and lies near…
Artist’s impression of two white dwarf stars merging and creating a Type Ia supernova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada An analysis of more than two decades’ worth…
Artist impression of an ultra fluffy gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf star. A gas giant exoplanet [right] with the density of a marshmallow…
Credit: ESA/Hubble, John Hutchings (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), Bruce Woodgate (GSFC/NASA/ESA), Mary Beth Kaiser (Johns Hopkins University), Steven Kraemer(Catholic University of America), and the STIS Team…
Near-Infrared Light Uncovers Vast Populations of Forming Stars, Many Still Encased in Dust NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
Composite images of the Cas A supernova remnant, a structure resulting from the explosion of a star in the Cassiopeia constellation. The blues represent data…
This mosaic shows the entire sky imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Infrared light refers to wavelengths that are longer than those visible…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size…
Astronomers think GRB 221009A represents the birth of a new black hole formed within the heart of a collapsing star. In this illustration, the black…