Composite image showing how the M87 system looked, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, during the Event Horizon Telescope’s April 2017 campaign to take the iconic…
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A composite image of a galaxy cluster formed from the collision of two large clusters of galaxies. Hot X-ray emitting gas is shown in pink…
An image of a computer-simulated Milky Way-like galaxy. Astronomers have added improvements to previous codes so that they now can more accurately include processes involving…
Artist’s rendering of a comet headed towards Earth. New theory explains possible origin of the Armageddon-causing object. It forever changed history when it crashed into…
This ALMA image shows the young planetforming dust rings surrounding the IRS 63 protostar, which is younger than 500,000 years old. Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox Data…
A Mars Global Surveyor image of dust storms in the north in the fall of Mars Year 24. Astronomers have cataloged 14974 Martian dust storms…
Sagittarius A East. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Nanjing Univ./P. Zhou et al. Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA Scientists have discovered the first evidence for a rare type of stellar explosion,…
An artist’s illustration of the Chandra spacecraft in orbit. Credit: MSFC Quasars are perhaps the best-known kinds of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxies whose central…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar yet. J1818.0-1607 is located about 21,000…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
This image shows the disc around the young star AB Aurigae in polarized near-infrared light as seen with the European Very Large Telescope’s SPHERE instrument.…
A new machine learning algorithm trained only with real data has classified over 2,300 supernovae with over 80% accuracy. Artificial intelligence is classifying real supernova…
An optical image of the starfield near Proxima Cen. The two bright stars are (left) Alpha and (right) Beta Centauri. Proxima Centauri, the closest star…
An optical image of the face-on Seyfert galaxy NGC 3081. The bright nuclei of Seyferts are powered by accretion onto their supermassive balckholes, but circumnuclear…
A burst of 1999 Leonid meteors as seen at 38,000 feet from Leonid Multi Instrument Aircraft Campaign. Astronomers have developed a meteor simulation tool to…
Taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this image of the moon is part of the collection of the highest resolution, near-global topographic maps of the…
An artist’s impression of a black hole. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that…
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by…
This wide-field view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy shows, in visible light, the vast array of stars contained within this small space.…
Artist’s impression of black hole jets. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others…