NASA’s NuSTAR Probes Puzzling Galaxy Merger of the Was 49 System
A supermassive black hole inside the tiny galaxy Was 49b is challenging astronomers’ ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is…
A supermassive black hole inside the tiny galaxy Was 49b is challenging astronomers’ ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of the distant galaxy 3C186. The…
Astronomers have identified a brown dwarf that was formed about 10 billion years ago and is made of gas that is around 250 times purer…
A team of astronomers studying the superluminous supernova Gaia6apd has concluded in part from the behavior of its extraordinary ultraviolet emission that it is powered…
This Hubble image of the week shows spiral galaxy NGC 1448, which is located roughly 50 million light-years away. This image from Hubble’s Wide Field…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. The search for extraterrestrial…
NASA has released additional Kepler data about TRAPPIST-1 – an ultra-cool dwarf star that hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets. On February 22, astronomers…
Using ALMA, a team of astronomers has detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent…
This newly released Hubble image shows star cluster Westerlund 1, which is located 15,000 light-years away. Light travels through space at just under 300,000 kilometers…
A team of scientists has measured rapidly varying temperatures in hot gas emanating from around a black hole for the first time. These ultrafast “winds”…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy UGC 12591, which is located roughly 400 million light-years away. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the…
By using data from telescopes, astronomers — and the public — can explore SN 1987A like never before. Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers search the Taurus region for HC11N in six of its characteristic radio wavelength transitions. The interstellar medium of the…
Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered white dwarf stars in the disc of the Milky Way galaxy, and measured…
This newly released Hubble image shows one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5–1145. The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that…
Using the Keck Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal the existence of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere is rich in carbon and…
This newly released ESO image shows the center of the Milky Way crossed by the eerie glow of zodiacal light. The sky is full of…