A radar image of the surface of Venus showing one of the surface features used to measure a revised value for the length of the…
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An optical image of the cluster of galaxies Abell 959. Radio images of this cluster identify several giant structures produced by hot gas, consistent with…
A radio image of the galaxy 3C062 and the jets from its superluminous, supermassive black hole nucleus. The most luminous AGN, like this one, have…
NGC 2623: Merging Galaxies from Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely…
An image of the tenuous atmosphere of Pluto, backlit by the Sun, as taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Astronomers beginning to study the atmospheres…
An artist’s depiction of the stellar system Kepler-9 and two of its planets. Astronomers have confirmed the very low densities of two of Kepler-9’s planets…
Comparison images of Mars taken by Hubble (left) and showing a global dust storm that engulfed it (right). Astronomers studying dust storms in the Aonia-Solis-Valles…
An Illustris-TNG simulation of the stellar content of the universe today on the largest scales showing a projection of stars across a 150 million light-years.…
The colliding spiral galaxies in Arp 272 located in the constellation of Hercules. Astronomers have studied a suite of galaxy merger simulations to conclude that…
Journey through the remnants of an exploded star in this Smithsonian 3D interactive experience.Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access The…
A diagram of the star systems closest to the sun (the year when the distance was determined is in parenthesis.) Astronomers have concluded that the…
An IRAC/Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image of the center of our galaxy. The infrared penetrates much of the dust to reveal the stars of the…
ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky…
A Hubble image of an ultraluminous infrared galaxy in the relatively nearby universe. Astronomers studying ultraluminous galaxies in the remote, early universe have spotted one…
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field of galaxies. A new study of the star formation activity in 179 of the galaxies in this image including many…
View of the double star system and surrounding disc. Copyright and credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick New research that included astronomers Luca Matra and David…
The remarkable exoplanet discoveries made by the Kepler and K2 missions have enabled astronomers to begin to piece together the history of the Earth and…