Galactic Bowling
The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,…
Astronomy
South Pole Telescope Scientists Tell What It’s Like To Work at the Bottom of the Earth
Argonne physicists say cold, dry is perfect for examining the oldest light in the universe. When your workplace is the South Pole, things can get…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies. To understand galaxies, you have to understand…
Webb Space Telescope: Uncovering Hidden Parts of Our Solar System
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. One of Webb’s key science goals is to study the…
Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way: Filament of Hydrogen 3,900 Light-Years Long
Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that gave rise to the first subatomic particles and the laws of…
Webb Space Telescope’s Million Mile Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete
On Monday, January 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn that will place it into its…
Ancient Space Dust Analysis Could Solve Mystery of Origins of Earth’s Water
An international team of scientists may have solved a key mystery about the origins of Earth’s water, after uncovering persuasive new evidence pointing to an…
A Stellar Merger’s Astrophysical Evolution in the “Blink of an Eye”
Everything we see in the universe is a snapshot of the past: As light takes its time to reach our telescopes, the system we’re observing…
The End of Cosmic Dark Ages: How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Expand on Hubble’s Deepest View
A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Mid-Level Flare Erupting From the Sun
The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on January 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly,…
Searching for Elusive Continuous Gravitational Waves From the Densest Objects in the Universe
A new international study, led by an Australian researcher from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, searched for elusive continuous gravitational waves…
Palomar Survey Instrument Shows Astronomical Impact of SpaceX Starlink Satellites
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks. Since 2019, SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of…
Hubble Spots a Black Hole Igniting a Firestorm of Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 continues to make a big impact, defying astronomers’ expectations. Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart…
“Stealth” Ocean Worlds: Evidence Uncovered for an Internal Ocean in Small Saturn Moon
Discovery could point to a new class of “stealth” ocean worlds. A Southwest Research Institute scientist set out to prove that the tiny, innermost moon…
How Many Black Holes Are in the Universe? 40,000,000,000,000,000,000
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall…
Unusual Team Finds Gigantic Planet Hidden in Plain Sight – Much Closer to Earth Than Others Like It
A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. The…
Danger Close: Newly-Discovered Planets Will Be “Swallowed” by Their Stars
Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars…
Massive Filament Structure – 3900 Light-Years Long – Discovered in the Milky Way
A Gigantic Lane Made of Raw Material for New Stars Astronomers discover a huge filament of atomic hydrogen, a possible precursor to star-forming clouds. A…