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…
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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…
Artist’s depiction of astronauts drilling for water on Mars during a future manned mission to the red planet. Credit: NASA Langley Advanced Concepts Lab/Analytical Mechanics…
An IRAC infrared image of a filament of young star-forming cores, with the intensity of the dense gas emission overlaid in contours. New submillimeter observations…
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser Scientists Determine ‘Oumuamua Isn’t Made…
Artist’s conception of accretion flares resulting from the encounter of an Oort-cloud comet and a hypothesized black hole in the outer solar system. Credit: M.…
A false-color infrared image of the Infrared Dark Cloud called “the Snake” as seen by the IRAC camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have…
The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained by General Relativity. A massive body can therefore act like…
A dark matter map, created by Japanese astronomers using weak lensing. The background image of a wide field of galaxies was analyzed for weak lensing…
The image of a black hole has a bright ring of emission surrounding a “shadow” cast by the black hole. This ring is composed of…