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This Hubble image shows NGC 2608, a barred spiral galaxy located 64 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The picture was created from images taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It combines observations gathered in four different filters, bringing together visible and infrared light to show off this galaxy in all its glory. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Riess et al.

Hubble Looks at Peculiar Spiral Galaxy

Jun 8, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this stunning image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2608. This Hubble image shows NGC 2608, a barred spiral...

An artist’s impression of the early Universe. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Kornmesser.

Astronomers Find No Evidence of Elusive First-Generation Stars in Early Universe

Jun 4, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found no evidence of hypothetical first-generation stars — called Population III stars...

About 3.5 million years, a tremendous explosion rocked the center of our galaxy. Our distant hominid ancestors, already afoot on the African plains, likely would have seen the resulting flare as a ghostly glow high overhead in the night sky. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Cecil, UNC, Chapel Hill & J. DePasquale, STScI.

Astronomers Uncover New Clues about Ancient Explosion in Milky Way’s Center

Jun 3, 2020 by News Staff

About 3.5 million years ago, a so-called Seyfert flare from Sagittarius A*, Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, created two enormous ionization cones...

An artist’s impression of the brown dwarf W1200-7845 and its disk. Image credit: William Pendrill / NASA.

Astronomers Find Young Brown Dwarf with Circumstellar Disk

Jun 3, 2020 by News Staff

A team of professional astronomers and citizen scientists has spotted a young brown dwarf with a disk that could potentially form exoplanets. Named W1200-7845,...

Neutron Star Cores May Contain Exotic Quark Matter

Jun 2, 2020 by News Staff

Massive neutron stars have sizable quark-matter cores, according to a study published in the journal Nature Physics. An artist’s conception of a massive...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by an enormous halo of plasma (seen in blue in this artists’ rendition). Image credit: NASA / CXC / M.Weiss / Ohio State / A. Gupta et al.

Milky Way’s Halo Hotter than Previously Thought

Jun 2, 2020 by News Staff

Using deep X-ray observations from ESA’s XMM-Newton Observatory, astronomers have discovered that Milky Way’s halo — a large cloud of ionized...

Chandra Catches Relativistic Jets from Stellar-Mass Black Hole

Jun 2, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have observed a pair of relativistic jets blasting away from a black hole in the binary system MAXI...

An artist’s impression of what one of extreme horizontal branch stars, and its giant whitish spot, might look like. The spot is bright, takes up a quarter of the star’s surface and is caused by magnetic fields. As the star rotates, the spot on its surface comes and goes, causing visible changes in brightness. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada, INAF-Padua / S. Zaggia.

Astronomers Detect Giant Spots on Extremely Hot Stars in Three Globular Clusters

Jun 2, 2020 by News Staff

Using several instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope and the New Technology Telescope, astronomers have discovered giant spots...

ASKAP Telescope Traces Four Fast Radio Bursts to Massive Galaxies

Jun 1, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory have tracked four mysterious blasts...

This Hubble image shows the massive globular cluster NGC 6441. The image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the ultraviolet and optical parts of the spectrum. Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / G. Piotto.

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of Globular Cluster NGC 6441

Jun 1, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 6441, one of about 150 globular clusters belonging to our Milky Way...

This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid -- 1I/2017 U1 (’Oumuamua). Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Interstellar Object Oumuamua Could Be Hydrogen Ice-Rich Body

May 31, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a paper to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers from the University of Chicago and Yale University show that the odd properties...

This Hubble image shows the star cluster Westerlund 2. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / A. Nota / Westerlund 2 Science Team.

Westerlund 2’s Core is No Place to Form Planets, Astronomers Say

May 29, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed young stars in a crowded stellar cluster called Westerlund 2. They’ve found that...

An artist’s impression of Planet Nine. Image credit: Tom Ruen / ESO.

‘Extreme’ Kuiper Belt Objects Cast Doubt on Hypothetical Planet Nine

May 28, 2020 by The Conversation

In 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown proposed a strange alignment of icy Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) on the outskirts of the Solar...

An artist’s conception illustrates the phenomena that make up the new class of cosmic explosions called fast blue optical transients. Image credit: Bill Saxton / NRAO / AUI / NSF.

New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered: Fast Blue Optical Transients

May 28, 2020 by News Staff

Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) share some characteristics with supernova explosions of massive stars and with explosions that generate gamma-ray...

An artist’s impression of a perturbation in the velocities of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that was revealed by ESA’s star mapping mission Gaia. Image credit: ESA.

Collision between Milky Way and Its Satellite May Have Triggered Formation of Our Solar System

May 26, 2020 by News Staff

Repeated collisions with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy may have triggered major star formation episodes in our Milky Way Galaxy, one of which roughly coincided...

An artist’s impression of the collisional ring galaxy R5519. Image credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions.

Astronomers Find Giant Collisional Ring Galaxy in Early Universe

May 26, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have spotted a giant galaxy with a massive star-forming ring that existed 10.8 billion years ago. An artist’s impression of the collisional...

This SPHERE image shows TYC 8998-760-1b. Image credit: Bohn et al, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz3462.

Astronomers Directly Image Giant Planet-Like Object around Sun-Like Star

May 25, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Using three instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has discovered and imaged a giant sub-stellar object...

This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3895. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Barrows.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 3895

May 25, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3895. This Hubble image shows the barred spiral...

This image shows the Jupiter trojan asteroid 2019 LD2. Image credit: ATLAS.

Astronomers Spot First Trojan Asteroid with Comet-Like Tail: 2019 LD2

May 22, 2020 by News Staff

2019 LD2 is the first known Jupiter trojan asteroid to display cometary activity with a visible coma and tail, according to a team of astronomers from...