Monster Star Had Never-Seen-Before Titanic Eruption Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder…
New COMAP radio survey will peer beneath the “tip of the iceberg” of galaxies to unveil a hidden era of star formation. Sometime around 400…
ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the…
Six of these tiny satellites will work together, creating the largest radio telescope ever launched to detect and track hazardous explosive space weather events. Constructing…
New fossil galaxy discovery could answer important questions about the history of the universe. An ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, thought to be a “fossil” of one…
The next full moon is a marginal supermoon and is called the Sturgeon Moon. It’s also known as the Green Corn Moon, the Raksha Bandhan…
What Is a Neutron Star? Neutron stars are the extremely dense remnants of supermassive stars that have exploded as supernovae. A star’s evolution and ultimate…
Powerful cosmic radio pulses originating deep in the universe can be used to study hidden pools of gas cocooning nearby galaxies, according to a new…
This vibrant celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Luminous regions surrounding newborn stars,…
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s first images and data have been released, you might be wondering: What comes next? There is a packed…
Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on August 12 and 13. Usually,…
After the recent release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope’s commissioning period is now being released on…
Webb’s Instruments Reveal New Details About Star Formation The incredible imaging capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled the Cartwheel Galaxy, a rare…
What’s Up for August 2022? Grab your binoculars for planet viewing, the outlook for the Perseids, and flying with Cygnus the swan. What are some…
Scientists investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen as they were 12 billion years ago, billions of years further back in time than…
This spectacular star-studded image shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this…
Researchers use X-ray telescopes and a new data analysis technique to describe space objects. Black holes with varying light signatures that were once thought to…
For the first time, researchers reveal the origin of neutrinos, elementary particles that reach our planet from the depths of the Universe. Highly energetic and…
