Supernova 1987A Reveals the Cold, Inner Regions of the Exploded Star’s Remnants
A team of researchers has discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the center of an exploded star for the very first time. Two previously…
A team of researchers has discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the center of an exploded star for the very first time. Two previously…
By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, scientists have obtained images 10 times sharper than what the Hubble…
This newly released face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 comes from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image does justice to the galaxy’s…
Astronomers view a primitive galaxy that is about to be consumed by a gigantic neighboring galaxy. The discovery could provide clues about the early Universe….
A new analysis of eighteen thousand colliding galaxies reveals that mergers like the one in galaxy NGC 4676 are the dominant mechanism for determining the…
This newly released Hubble image shows Seyfert galaxy 2XMM J143450.5+033843, which is located nearly 400 million light-years away from Earth. Not all galaxies have the…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making…
New research on the molecular cloud complex in Orion-B reveals the detailed relationships between the gas and dust, and quantifies how the spatially varying intensities…
In a newly published study, astronomers present an overview of the first data release (DR1) and first-look science from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey (GAS)….
Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers…
New research firms up the idea that we exist in one of the voids in the structure of the cosmos and helps ease the apparent…
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
By comparing theoretical models to Chandra surveys and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found evidence that the very earliest supermassive black holes in…
An international team of astronomers show that a giant gas planet – up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust…
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxy in the early universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These…
Using the Hornet and SuperMUC supercomputers in Germany and a state-of-the-art code, a team of scientists has helped uncover the history of the galaxy. Thousands…
First radio observations of the planetary-mass object OTS44 reveal a dusty protoplanetary disk that is very similar to disks around young stars. Astronomers are surprised…