Manatee Nebula or W50, as captured by the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton, also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror…
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The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras Gaspar The scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July…
An amateur astronomer’s keen eyes led to the discovery of an unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy. Credit: International Gemini…
In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way,…
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Shown in blue on the image is a map of the…
Artist’s impression of one potential source of continuous gravitational waves – Asymmetric accretion onto a spinning neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University In the…
Simulation of glowing gas around a black hole’ Credit: Chris White, Princeton University Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady,…
Researchers have simulated and presented a low-cost experiment to produce and study the early phases of this process in ways that were previously considered to…
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical…
Artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) White dwarf…
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL Deep Follow-up of GW151226 — an ordinary binary or a low-mass…
Artist’s impression of the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. Located about 3,009 light-years from Earth, VY Canis Majoris is possibly the most massive star…
University of Arizona astronomers have identified a new class of star system. The collection of mostly young blue stars are seen here using the Hubble…
As the shell of explosion debris from the supernova expands over a few decades, it becomes less dense and eventually becomes thin enough that radio…
Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling, Acknowledgment: L. Shatz The massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351…
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
A neutron star (blue spot at the center of the red ring) located within the remains of a supernova in the Small Magellanic Cloud, located…
This illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. The Hubble Space Telescope detects the spectral signature…