An artist’s impression of the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star. The inset shows the molecular gas targeted by the…
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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…
Core-scale magnetic fields (red segments) inferred using high-resolution and sensitive dust emission polarization observations using JCMT. The Solar-type star forming cores fragmented out of B213…
A quarter of Sun-like stars eat their own planets, according to new research. How rare is our Solar System? In the 30 years or so…
Giant Galaxy Cluster Magnifies the Light from a Distant Supernova and Splits It into Multiple Images People over the centuries haven’t been shy about making…
[embedded content]Scientists using data from NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt This comparison view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of…
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…
Physicists at the University of Sussex have discovered that black holes exert a pressure on their environment, in a scientific first. In 1974 Stephen Hawking…
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed the New York City area from the International Space Station in March 2020. Credit: NASA The attacks of September 11,…
In this image, the fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy, is depicted.…
Illustration showing some of the hazards that the new Center for Space Domain Awareness will investigate. Credit/Copyright: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick University of WarwickFounded in…
Four people – none of them trained astronauts – are scheduled to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on September 15, 2021. Credit:…
Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed “Rochette,” from which NASA’s Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on…
Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere…
Credit: Anna Nesterova University of Arizona aerospace and mining engineers are mapping out a plan for harvesting the moon’s resources using autonomous robot swarms and…
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
These eleven images are of the asteroid Kleopatra, viewed at different angles as it rotates. The images were taken at different times between 2017 and…
On the left, one of the ultra-diffuse galaxies that was analyzed in the simulation. On the right, the image of the DF2 galaxy, which is…