An artist’s impression of Pulsar — a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos. Credit: ICRAR / Curtin University Astronomers…
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Galaxy UGC 10738, seen edge-on through the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, revealing distinct thick and thin discs. Credit: Jesse van de…
This artist’s impression depicts a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin disc of rotating material consists of the leftovers…
Aging individual stars helped date an early merger event. New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky…
April 22, 2021, Lyrid meteor shower radiants in CAMS data (yellow dots) from long-period comet Thatcher. Credit: P. Jenniskens / SETI Institute Researchers report that…
Are microbes traveling around in the galaxy? Are we alone in the universe? The famous SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to…
The Orion Bar is a diagonal, ridge-like feature of gas and dust in the lower left quadrant of this image of the Orion Nebula. Sculpted…
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
Snapshot from the first full STARFORGE simulation. Nicknamed the “Anvil of Creation,” a giant molecular cloud with individual star formation and comprehensive feedback, including protostellar…
Stray light decomposition by ultrafast time-of-flight imaging. Credit: Lionel Clermont / Centre Spatial de Liège / Université de Liège A team of researchers at the…
The detection of the heavy metals iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) in the fuzzy atmosphere of a comet are illustrated in this image, which features…
As a supermassive black hole consumed a star, researchers were surprised it exhibited properties that were similar to that of much smaller, stellar-mass black holes.…
Schematical representation of the expansion of the Universe over the course of its history. Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more…
Simulations of a region of space 100 million light-years square. The leftmost simulation ran at low resolution. Using machine learning, researchers upscaled the low-res model…
This artist’s illustration depicts an old red dwarf like Barnard’s Star (right) and an orbiting, rocky planet (left). Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss How hospitable are red…
Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Credit: NASA The closest…
One of the key goals of gravitational wave astronomy is to understand and characterize binary black hole spins, according to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral…
Unprecedented high-resolution map of the Orion Nebula Cluster showing newborn stars (orange squares), gravitationally collapsing gas cores (red circles), and non-collapsing gas cores (blue crosses).…
Rapidly rotating neutron stars may be “humming” continuous gravitational waves. Credit: K. Wette Remember the days before working from home? It’s Monday morning, you’re running…
Artist’s impression of a yellow supergiant in a close binary with a blue, main sequence companion star, similar to the properties derived for the 2019yvr…