NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. The multiple-image effect seen…
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A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
As part of the international Cassini mission, ESA’s Huygens probe made history on January 14, 2005, when it became the first probe to successfully land…
A galaxy named NGC 1803 as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al. This bright, somewhat blob-like…
Artist’s rendering shows G objects, with the reddish centers, orbiting the supermassive black hole. The black hole is represented as a dark sphere inside a…
This infographic shows the key results from a study that has revealed the interstellar thread of phosphorus, one of life’s building blocks.Thanks to ALMA, astronomers…
Artist’s rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Northrop Grumman How small are the smallest celestial objects that form like stars, but don’t produce…
Dust-rich outflows of evolved stars similar to the pictured Egg Nebula are plausible sources of the large presolar silicon carbide grains found in meteorites like…
The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA. A so-called “ALMA disk” as seen in infrared light around distant stars. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NSF Scientists,…
This image shows part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs…
Artist’s impression of gamma-ray burst with orbiting binary star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts,…
Two galaxies in the process of merging. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble When two galaxies merge, there are brief periods of stellar baby booms. A group of astronomers…
This rendition shows ionized bubbles formed by three galaxies in galaxy cluster EGS77. Credit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA Astronomers using…
NASA’s new class of astronauts – the first to graduate since the agency announced its Artemis program – appear on stage during their graduation ceremony…
Image of the host galaxy of FRB 180916 (center) acquired with the 8-meter Gemini-North telescope of NSF’s OIR Lab on Hawaii’s Maunakea. Images acquired in…
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up…
The first Artemis rocket stage is guided toward NASA’s Pegasus barge Jan. 8 ahead of its forthcoming journey to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay…
Engineers work on the newly integrated Landsat 9 satellite in a cleanroom at the Northrop Grumman facility in Gilbert, Arizona. In December, the team attached…
When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black…
Galaxy NGC 2770. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a close-up view of a galaxy…