An artist’s impression of a star’s dusty debris disk, thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment. Astronomers studying the debris…
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Artist’s concept of a dark and mysterious object. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESSLaunched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s…
An image of a galaxy seen face-on in a simulation. It shows the distribution of gas over the galaxy (red is higher density and blue…
RBS 797 is a galaxy cluster located about 3.9 billion light years from Earth. Four enormous cavities, or bubbles, have been found at the center…
Credit: M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Researchers have predicted the new class of star’s existence for 50 years but until now, never observed…
To understand how the universe formed, astronomers have created AbacusSummit, more than 160 simulations of how gravity may have shaped the distribution of dark matter.…
This artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. Launched in 2009, it isn’t new, but its…
An artist’s conception of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system which orbit the star in an exceptinally flat plane. Astronomers have used the extreme…
Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab New calculations show that a black holeA black hole is a place in space where the pull of gravity is…
Astronomers have found evidence for a possible planet candidate in the M51 (“Whirlpool”) galaxy, representing what could be the first planet detected outside of the…
The BICEP3 telescope located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. (The metal skirt around the telescope shields it from reflected light from the…
This deep Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC2052-DF2, an unusual “see-through” galaxy. The giant cosmic cotton ball is so diffuse and…
An image from the ROMULUS computer simulation showing an intermediate mass galaxy, its bright central region with its supermassive black hole, and the locations (and…
An artist’s rendition of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Astronomers have used data from Parker, along with data from other solar missions, to…
An illustration of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven planets around an M-dwarf star. The star has both strong UV and X-ray emission as well as…
Astronomers have discovered a giant, spherical cavity within the Milky Way galaxy; its location is depicted on the right. A zoomed in view of the…
An image of the magnetized, star-forming core BHR 71 IRS1. The outermost low-density gas is shown by the blue and white background colors; the centrally…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the…
Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the…
This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser In 2019, astronomers spotted something…