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:…
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Artistic representation of a neutron star accreting matter from its companion’s envelope. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) An international research team has performed a…
Figure 1. Artist’s representation of the evolution of the universe, with time flowing to the right in the direction of the red arrow. The 7Li(d,n)24He…
James Webb Space telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Before the MIRI instrument – one of four scientific instruments aboard the…
Credit: Caltech New planetary candidates found by sifting through archival Kepler Telescope data. A fully automated exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that…
The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will…
A rendering of what PUEO may look like when deployed. Each white dish is a radio antenna; the signals from each antenna are combined in…
An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
An artist’s impression of the mysterious burst AT2018cow. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may…
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close…
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…
Researchers have conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The international team looked to the stars — a pair of…
Artist’s impression of CygnusX-1. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong…
This is a composite view of X-rays, molecular gas, and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The orange-colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas.…
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…
Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in the fabric of space and time that emanate from catastrophic events in space, like collisions of black holes and…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Members of the Fornax galaxy cluster fill this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of…