Exploration of the Universe by the SDSS mission during the past two decades (1998-2019). Credit: eBOSS collaboration The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) collaboration…
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Artist’s conception of a violent stellar flare erupting on neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. The flare is the most powerful ever recorded from the star, and…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University General relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is best tested at its…
Dalian Coherent Light Source revealing three-body photodissociation of water as an important prebiotic-O2 source. Credit: DICP The provenance of oxygen on Earth and other solar…
Artist’s impression of a galaxy with an active nucleus, a supermassive black hole in the center. When the black hole swallows matter, two powerful jets…
Artist’s impression of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet, WASP-33b. Credit: Astrobiology Center An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and…
Data from Chandra and NuSTAR provide evidence for the existence of a structure known as a “pulsar wind nebula” at the center of the Supernova…
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have announced the discovery of an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant…
This exoplanet, a gas giant called GJ 504b, is about 57 light-years away from Earth. Exoplanets like this may help researchers find and measure dark…
Scientists hope the proposed Interstellar Probe will teach us more about our home in the galaxy as well as how other stars in the galaxy…
Illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover at work within Mars’s Jezero Crater. Credit: NASA and JPL-Caltech Simulation led by University of Chicago geoscientist finds missing piece…
An artist’s impression shows two translucent orbs, which represent tin nuclei, colliding and shattering in a shower of colorful shards. Amidst these shards, which represent…
Credit: Sagiv Shiber, LSU “Octo-Tiger,” a breakthrough astrophysics code, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and…
X-ray emissions from the Crab Pulsar are more intense during giant radio pulses (GRPs), researchers report. The new findings provide constraints on the mechanisms underlying…
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one…
Astronomers have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NSF/R.Hurt The highlight of the new chart is…
“Sound waves trapped inside stars cause them to oscillate at particular frequencies. These vibrations are visible on the surface, and can be measured by astronomers…
A direct image of the exoplanet YSES 2b (bottom right) and its star (center). The star is blocked by a so-called coronagraph. Credit: ESO/SPHERE/VLT/Bohn et…
Image of the galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, combined with gravitational lensing images of the distant galaxy RXCJ0600-z6, 12.4 billion…
An artist’s impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri, modeled after the loops of glowing hot gas seen in the largest solar flares. An artist’s…