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Jupiter’s Icy, Forgotten Moon Just Became One of the Most Exciting Places in the Solar System

February 20, 2025

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what happens if you stand in the path of a wandering black hole

February 19, 2025

It is believed that 4.4 billion years ago, a celestial body (Theia) slammed into Earth and produced the Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

4.4 Billion Years Ago, a Planet Collided with Earth—And Changed Everything

February 19, 2025

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole's event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object's gravitational grip. The black hole's powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)

The Milky Way’s Heart Is on Fire: JWST Captures Explosive Black Hole Flares

February 18, 2025

Artist's impression of the Yellow Hypergiant star Rho Cassiopeiae around which gas shells form due to recurring outbursts observed in the last 130 years. Credit: Alex Lobel

The Violent Life of Rho Cassiopeiae: A Star on the Edge of Explosion

February 18, 2025

A mysterious isotope shift in ytterbium led scientists on a journey of discovery, revealing secrets about the structure of atomic nuclei. While hopes of a new dark force remain unproven, the findings provide crucial clues about the fundamental nature of matter and neutron stars.

A Strange Atomic Phenomenon Could Be Our Best Clue to Dark Matter Yet

February 17, 2025

An artist’s rendition of a supermassive black hole being a “messy eater.” Sometimes matter can be flung off at high speeds in the form of jets—which may create the conditions for stars to form.

The Milky Way Is on a Collision Course with a Black Hole—It’s Only a Matter of Time

February 17, 2025

This artist’s concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists recently discovered such a system that may break the current record for fastest exoplanet system, traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour, or 540 kilometers per second. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)

This Planet May Soon Escape the Milky Way’s Gravitational Grip

February 16, 2025

A zoom-in of the main image. Are planets forming in here somewhere? Rocky ones in habitable zones? Image Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Discover the Fiery Beauty of NGC 2040—A Star Cluster in Cosmic Bloom

February 16, 2025

This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity. The picture was taken with ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars, creating an extravagant, yet spectacular landscape. As VISTA observes infrared light, it is able to peer through most of the dust in this region, which would block our view when observing in visible light. Behind the dust, VISTA is showing young stars within dusty cocoons and cold 'failed' stars known as brown dwarfs, thus revealing the secrets within these young stellar nurseries. Credit: ESO/VVVX survey

See! The Spectacular Birth of Suns in RCW 38

February 15, 2025

Artist's rendition of a white dwarf from the surface of an orbiting exoplanet. New research suggests that white dwarfs can be hospitable hosts for life-supporting exoplanets. Image Credit: Madden/Cornell University

There May Be Life—Even Around a Dead Star! The Hidden Potential of White Dwarfs

February 15, 2025

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Is This the Missing Link Between Galaxies? Astronomers Say Yes

February 13, 2025

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This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole's event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object's gravitational grip. The black hole's powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)

The Milky Way’s Heart Is on Fire: JWST Captures Explosive Black Hole Flares

February 18, 2025

An artist’s rendition of a supermassive black hole being a “messy eater.” Sometimes matter can be flung off at high speeds in the form of jets—which may create the conditions for stars to form.

The Milky Way Is on a Collision Course with a Black Hole—It’s Only a Matter of Time

February 17, 2025

This artist’s concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists recently discovered such a system that may break the current record for fastest exoplanet system, traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour, or 540 kilometers per second. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)

This Planet May Soon Escape the Milky Way’s Gravitational Grip

February 16, 2025

This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity. The picture was taken with ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars, creating an extravagant, yet spectacular landscape. As VISTA observes infrared light, it is able to peer through most of the dust in this region, which would block our view when observing in visible light. Behind the dust, VISTA is showing young stars within dusty cocoons and cold 'failed' stars known as brown dwarfs, thus revealing the secrets within these young stellar nurseries. Credit: ESO/VVVX survey

See! The Spectacular Birth of Suns in RCW 38

February 15, 2025

A Hubble Space Telescope WFC3-IR image of Westerlund 1 in false color. Credit: Wei et al., 2025.

Hubble Just Captured the Most Detailed Look at This Galactic Powerhouse – Here’s What It Found

February 10, 2025

bubbles in space.

How Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Blew Two Giant Bubbles

February 2, 2025

This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, a powerful instrument installed on the telescope in 2009. WFC3 is responsible for many of Hubble’s most breathtaking and iconic photographs, including Pictures of the Week. Shown here, NGC 7773 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. A luminous bar-shaped structure cuts prominently through the galaxy's bright core, extending to the inner boundary of NGC 7773's sweeping, pinwheel-like spiral arms. Astronomers think that these bar structures emerge later in the lifetime of a galaxy, as star-forming material makes its way towards the galactic centre — younger spirals do not feature barred structures as often as older spirals do, suggesting that bars are a sign of galactic maturity. They are also thought to act as stellar nurseries, as they gleam brightly with copious numbers of youthful stars. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to be a barred spiral like NGC 7773. By studying galactic specimens such as NGC 7773 throughout the Universe, researchers hope to learn more about the processes that have shaped — and continue to shape — our cosmic home.

NGC 7773: A Galactic Marvel Illuminating the Mystery of Dark Matter

January 15, 2025

RGB image of G278.94+1.35 made of ASKAP smoothed 15′′ (red), WISE W3 (green) and WISE W4 (blue). The dash box marks the nearby HII region that is in the line of sight. Credit: Filipović et al., 2024.

Astronomers Discover Diprotodon: A Massive Supernova Remnant Closer Than Ever Before!

January 8, 2025

The Milky Way’s Bizarre Behavior Has Scientists Puzzled – What’s Going On?

The Milky Way’s Bizarre Behavior Has Scientists Puzzled – What’s Going On?

November 30, 2024

Mars and the moon

Mars and the Moon Align: A Must-See Night Sky Event This Week

November 19, 2024

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