Hubble Spots Cosmic Flapping “Bat Shadow” in Outer Space [Video]
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s…
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s…
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach…
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive…
Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a…
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets. Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed…
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its…
Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these…
New Direct Images Captured with W. M. Keck Observatory’s Upgraded Adaptive Optics System Lead to First Independent Confirmation of PDS 70 Protoplanets New evidence shows…
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this planet class could help answer…
What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday’s solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon….
The galaxy known as NGC 5907 stretches wide across this image. Appearing as an elongated line of stars and dark dust, the galaxy is categorized…
Most massive stars are born in binaries (and sometimes triples, quadruples, and so on—being single isn’t common for such rock stars!) As stars age, they…
Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra…
Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed — Australian scientists work out how to detect them, revealing a lost 8 billion light-years of…
Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system,…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young…
A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source…
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of…