T Corona Borealis: The Star That Only Shines Once Every 80 Years Is About to Dazzle! December 31, 2024
Nebula or Artwork? The Running Chicken’s Secrets Revealed by the Very Large Telescope December 26, 2024
Jaw-Dropping Photos from Webb Show Planets Forming Where Science Said ‘Impossible’! December 26, 2024
Looks Just Like a Christmas Tree! NASA’s Festive Star Cluster Photo Is the Perfect Holiday Gift December 25, 2024
Your Guide to December’s Cosmic Events: Spectacular Meteors, Jupiter, Full Moon and More! December 2, 2024
Jupiter’s Icy, Forgotten Moon Just Became One of the Most Exciting Places in the Solar System February 20, 2025
Jupiter’s Icy, Forgotten Moon Just Became One of the Most Exciting Places in the Solar System February 20, 2025
The Milky Way Is on a Collision Course with a Black Hole—It’s Only a Matter of Time February 17, 2025
![A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. These novae are not caught inside the jet, but are apparently in a dangerous neighbourhood nearby. During a recent 9-month survey, astronomers using Hubble found twice as many of these novae going off near the jet as elsewhere in the galaxy. The galaxy is the home of several trillion stars and thousands of star-like globular star clusters. [Image description: A Hubble photo of galaxy M87, which resembles a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball. The brightness decreases gradually out in all directions from a bright white point of light at the centre. A wavy blue-white jet of material extends from the point-like core outward to the upper right, about halfway across the galaxy. Stars speckle the background.]](https://nasaspacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Hubble_s_view_of_M87_galaxy-2000x1200-1-360x180.jpg)
