Simulation of binary star. Credit: From the scientific article by Jørgensen, Kuruwita et al. Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research,…
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The left panel’s gray and blue layers show the deep, ice-covered ocean on Europa, a moon of Jupiter that could host extraterrestrial life. This ocean…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a…
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey In our sun’s cosmic neighborhood…
Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to many massive stars. Credit:…
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System. Credit: Northrup Grumman The…
At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and falls into the black hole,…
An unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity may be key to solving the Hubble constant problem, according to…
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American…
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this artist’s concept traveling through space against a field of stars, has been exploring our solar system since 1977,…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon…
A 3-gram (0.1 ounce) sample of the Hypatia stone. Researchers found a consistent pattern of 15 elements in the Hypatia stone. The pattern is completely…
When a star explodes in a supernova, it sometimes leaves a remnant that has a ring shape, such as seen here in this illustration of…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Credit: Marvel Studios Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound…
Artist impression of an exploding white dwarf. Credit: University of Tübingen When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they contract to form white…
The supernova known as 2014C took place eight years ago—but scientists are still watching and learning from its aftermath. The very faintly visible explosion is…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: EHT Collaboration Team reveals…
This illustration is an artist’s impression of the thin, rocky debris disc discovered around the two Hyades white dwarfs. Rocky asteroids are thought to have…
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESOCreated in 1962, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is a 16-nation…