A Cosmic Breakthrough: Observing an Extragalactic Star’s Disc for the First Time
Rice astronomer helps find evidence of an accretion disk around a young star outside the Milky Way Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rotating disc…
Rice astronomer helps find evidence of an accretion disk around a young star outside the Milky Way Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rotating disc…
This visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that host confirmed stellar-mass black holes….
This Picture of the Week shows an open cluster known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James…
Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from…
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO’s Very…
New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’…
Astronomers believe two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way—the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds—may have had a third companion. Research published today describes…
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighboring galaxies, showing areas of star formation…
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place. Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a…
This Hubble image of the week shows one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation and the intriguing structure of stacked…
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite…
This newly released ESO image reveals a new view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Each of the thousands of spots in this new…
This newly released Hubble image shows the globular cluster NGC 1854, a gathering of white and blue stars in the southern constellation of Dorado (The…
The H.E.S.S. telescope system has discovered three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Once again, the gamma-ray observatory H.E.S.S. has demonstrated its…
This newly released Hubble image shows a small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This stunning new Hubble image shows a small part of…
A new ESO image explores the Large Magellanic Cloud and an area nicknamed the Dragon’s Head Nebula. The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the…
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals a closer look at NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020. ESO’s Very Large Telescope has…
By observing a rare close pair of stars, known as eclipsing binaries, a team of scientists recalculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, refining…