Artist’s depiction of a neutron star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions…
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Artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “rogue” (or “free-floating”) planets, planets that may be alone…
A new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be much rarer than previously thought. The work focuses…
Turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism…
A unique “heart-shape,” with wisps of gas filaments showing an intricate honeycomb-like arrangement, has been discovered at the center of the iconic supernova remnant, the…
The two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope. In the background is the sky as seen in optical light. Overlaid in red is…
Artist’s impression of a galaxy surrounded by gravitational distortions due to dark matter. Galaxies live inside larger concentrations of invisible dark matter (colored purple in…
Snapshots from a Milky Way galaxy simulation. The bar in the center and the spiral arms are thought to rotate at different speeds. If they…
Artist’s impression of an ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbors the…
Satellites such as Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 carry advanced synthetic aperture radars that can provide data to map changing land cover, ground deformation, ice shelves, and…
A photograph of the transit of Mercury of 9 May 2016. Mercury is seen in silhouette as the dark dot below left of centre. The…
Image of the optical light emitted by the stars of a spiral galaxy from the TNG50 simulation.Credit: D. Nelson (MPA) and the IllustrisTNG team Scientists…
An artist’s impression of the jet launched by a supermassive black hole, which inflates lobes of very hot gas that are distorted by the cluster…
The flash from the impact of the meteorite on the eclipsed Moon, seen as the dot at top left (indicated by the arrow), as recorded…