Hubble Spies a Galactic Gem: Unusual Multi-Armed Galaxy Merger
Galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, is captured in this stunning…
Galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, is captured in this stunning…
The scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July 12th, to come around. That is the day when NASA promises to release the…
Gemini North telescope reveals a relict of the earliest galaxies. A unique ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered on the outer fringes of the Andromeda…
In this Hubble Space Telescope image from 2014, brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) appear almost like an ocean current with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous…
Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart Astronomers use Gemini Observatory and an international telescope collaboration to shed light on…
Recently, NIRISS, one of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments concluded its postlaunch preparations and was declared ready for science. Now a…
Sunspots are usually not a cause for concern, even if they double in size overnight and grow to be twice the size of the Earth…
What is Dark Matter? Dark matter is a form of matter that cannot currently be observed directly, but is estimated to comprise about 85% of…
Liquid water is an important prerequisite for life to develop on a planet. As researchers report in a new study, liquid water could also exist…
The pumped-up arm of the lopsided spiral galaxy NGC 772 dominates this image captured by the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The…
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments, known as NIRISS, has concluded its postlaunch preparations and is now ready for science….
The Webb Space Telescope team continues to commission the 17 science instrument modes. They recently asked Nathalie Ouellette of the Université de Montréal to give…
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards Mercury orbit in…
The sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius is captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble explored the heart…
A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the complete…
An international team of astronomers has combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes for the first time to detect the faint signatures of neutral…
About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image…
In the last few years, astronomers have achieved an incredible milestone: the detection of gravitational waves, vanishingly weak ripples in the fabric of space and…