Brazilian researchers have identified robust signs of the existence of a giant object in the Cygnus constellation orbiting a binary system of a live star…
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Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Messier 3, is commonly acknowledged to be one of…
Artist’s impression. A planetary fragment orbits the star SDSS J122859.93+104032.9, leaving a tail of gas in its wake. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A fragment…
Thin section of ALH-77005 in plane polarized light. The studied area by FTIR spectroscopy is marked by rectangle, where the strongputative microbially mediated alteration was…
This series of images shows the Martian moon Phobos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on…
Illustration of a Gamma-Ray Burst. NASA/D.Berry Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted…
A simulated image by the University of Arizona shows the turbulent plasma in the extreme environment around a supermassive black hole. Credit: University of Arizona.…
Artist’s conception of the dusty, doughnut-shaped object surrounding the supermassive black hole, disk of material orbiting the black hole, and jets of material ejected by…
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…
A photo of the DF2 galaxy (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum [Yale University]) A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on…
This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
A cosmic light show sparked by the formation of massive stars in the stellar nursery, called W51, glows over on a star field image (white)…
This image of Centaurus A, one of the closest active galaxies to Earth, combines the data from observations in multiple frequency ranges. Credit: ESO/WFI (optical),…
This is a composite picture showing images of storms on Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the Voyager 2 spacecraft (right). The Hubble…
This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (The Shield). Messier 11 is…
This still image is a single frame from an immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition visualization that allows viewers to view the center of our Galaxy as if…
The galactic chimneys (yellow-orange areas extending vertically) are centered on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The center of our galaxy…
A Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of a field of galaxies in the constellation Bootes. A new study of 703 galaxies with supermassive black holes in…
CTB 1, seen here in a deep exposure that highlights visible light from hydrogen gas, is the expanding wreckage of a massive star that exploded…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.…