The RBC EXT8 globular cluster orbits the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy, a close companion to our Milky Way Galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from…
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Computer simulation of the disruption of a star by a black hole shows the formation of an eccentric accretion disk of stellar material spiraling into…
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the…
Artist’s impression of one of this study’s superlative discoveries, the oldest known wide-separation white dwarf plus cold brown dwarf pair. The small white orb represents…
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shed by the…
HSC J1631+4426 broke the record for the lowest oxygen abundance. Credit: NAOJ/Kojima et al. Rare, Extremely Metal-Poor Nearby Galaxy Discovered With Machine Learning Astronomers using…
Artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system. The two planets are seen clearing a gap in the protoplanetary disk from which they were born. The…
Artist’s conception illustrates the differences in phenomena resulting from an “ordinary” core-collapse supernova explosion, an explosion creating a gamma-ray burst, and one creating a Fast…
This is an artist’s illustration of the Kepler-88 planetary system. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Hawaii astronomer discovers massive extrasolar planet with Maunakea telescope.…
Artistic image of the supernova explosions of the first massive stars that formed in the milky way. The star j0815+4729 was formed from the material…
The red galaxy at the center is a dying galaxy at 12 billion years ago. Astronomers measured the motion of stars in the galaxy and…
Accretion of gas onto a stellar black hole from its blue companion star, through a truncated accretion disk (Artist impression). Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium,…
A volume rendering of the ionized gas wind in Makani. Two of the dimensions are spatial, and the third is velocity. The colors trace the…
Distorted galaxiesImages made with the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show how light from two distant galaxies is distorted into multiple images. UC Davis astronomers…
Images made with the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show how light from two distant galaxies is distorted into multiple images. UC Davis astronomers have…
NGC1569 is a star-forming galaxy. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formation. Astronomers…
The blue shading shows the calculated extent of the protocluster, and the bluer color indicates higher density of galaxies in the protocluster. The red objects…
The blue shading shows the calculated extent of the protocluster, and the bluer color indicates higher density of galaxies in the protocluster. The red objects…
Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: Ricardo Ramirez Three times the mass of Jupiter, a first-of-its-kind planet swings around its star on a bizarre path. Astronomers…
Artist conception of gas streams (blue) feeding a galactic disk. The inflow fuels new star formation, and because the infalling gas is spinning, the size…