Manatee Nebula or W50, as captured by the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton, also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror…
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Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
The orphan cloud is the blue umbrella-shaped part of this image, which is color-coded to show the X-ray part of the cloud in blue, the…
Illustration of how light echoes from behind a black hole. Credit: ESA For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a…
NASA’s Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter’s dawn magnetosphere that periodically expel energetic heavy ions into the atmosphere, producing stunning X-ray…
The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from Jupiter’s auroras, detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope in 2007. They are overlaid on an…
An artistic rendering of the XMM-Newton (X-ray multi-mirror mission) space telescope. A study of archival data from the XMM-Newton and the Chandra X-ray space telescopes…
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope reveals a new type of star in X-ray light. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, L. Oskinova/University Potsdam, Germany This image shows a new type…
A neutron star begins its life as a star between about 7 and 20 times the mass of the sun. When this type of star…
A black hole including the heartbeat signal observed in 2007 and 2018. Credit: Dr Chichuan Jin, of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences…
A composite view of the Abell 2384 system, comprising two galaxy clusters located 1.2 billion light years from Earth. A new study, based on data…
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell…
This artist’s concept depicts a cosmic homicide in action. A wayward star is being shredded by the intense gravitational pull of a black hole that…
This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
Decaying dark matter should produce a bright and spherical halo of X-ray emission around the center of the Milky Way that could be detectable when…
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion…
The dynamic behaviour of a black hole corona (artist’s impression). Credit: ESA Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and…
This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are classified as G stars; stars less massive and cooler…