Many stars in the center of the Milky Way have high heavy metal content. Credit: Michael Franklin Stars are giant factories that produce most of…
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This artist’s rendering shows a view of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its central bar as it might appear if viewed from above. Credit:…
This is an artist’s Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. The planet, which orbits closely to its…
[embedded content]This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb)…
Gravitational waves illustration. Incredibly sensitive instruments used in landmark discoveries could help solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the Universe. The technology behind…
Sensor network GNOME publishes comprehensive data in Nature Physics for the first time — Nine stations in six countries involved. An international team of researchers…
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
Cosmic physics mimicked on table-top as grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of a single layer of atoms in a two-dimensional hexagonal…
A mosaic image of the center of the Milky Way, captured with radiowaves. The magnetic filaments are large, vertical slashes throughout the image. Credit: Northwestern…
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce…
The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to…
The sinuous young stellar jet, MHO 2147, meanders lazily across a field of stars in this image captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory,…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
A slice through the 3D map of galaxies from the first few months of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The Earth is at the…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies. To…
Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way: Filament of Hydrogen 3,900 Light-Years Long
Artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that…
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…
Meteorites on their way to Earth and breaking through the atmosphere. Credit: Elements of this image furnished by NASA- earthmap for 3Drender; courtesy University of…
SOFIA FORCAST measurements (orange) of the V838 Mon spectrum, and the best-fit composite model of SOFIA data with a silicate-to-alumina ratio of 50:50 (yellow), overlaid…
Dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and…