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An artist’s impression of a blazar. Image credit: DESY / Science Communication Lab.

Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Blazar

Jan 10, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered a blazar — a quasar with a jet aligned along our line of sight — at redshift of 7. Named VLASS J041009.05-013919.88,...

GD-1 exhibits spur and gap structures that may result from a close encounter with a dense substructure. Image credit: University of California, Riverside.

Study: GD-1 Stellar Stream’s Distinctive Features Caused by Self-Interacting Dark Matter Subhalo

Jan 7, 2025 by News Staff

A core-collapsing self-interacting dark matter subhalo is responsible for the peculiar spur and gap features observed in GD-1, a stellar stream within...

In this Hubble image of Abell 370, the host galaxy where the 44 stars were discovered appears several times. Image credit: NASA.

Webb Spots Gravitationally Magnified Stars 6.5 Billion Light-Years Away

Jan 7, 2025 by News Staff

Using James Webb Space Telescope observations, astronomers have identified more than 40 microlensed stars in a single galaxy behind the galaxy cluster...

An artist’s impression of a neutron star. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Recently-Discovered Fast Radio Burst Emerged from Neutron Star’s Magnetosphere, Astronomers Say

Jan 6, 2025 by News Staff

New research provides the first conclusive evidence that a fast radio burst can originate from the magnetosphere, the highly magnetic environment immediately...

This Hubble image shows several galaxies in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Erb.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Various Galaxies in Hydra

Jan 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

This new image from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a tiny patch of sky in the constellation of Hydra. This...

The Antlia cluster is dominated by two massive elliptical galaxies: NGC 3268 (center) and NGC 3258 (lower right). Image credit: Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / R. Colombari & M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab.

DECam Zooms in on Antlia Galaxy Cluster

Jan 1, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Antlia galaxy cluster is a group of at least 230 galaxies held together by gravity; this cluster is unusual — unlike most other galaxy clusters,...

Orbits of a few real stars are illustrated on top of the total stellar light of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: S. Khoperskov / AIP.

Astronomers Explore 3D Structure of Milky Way Galaxy

Dec 30, 2024 by News Staff

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have...

This Hubble image shows LEDA 22057, a spiral galaxy some 650 million light-years away in the constellation of Gemini. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R.J. Foley, UC Santa Cruz.

Hubble Views Supernova-Hosting Spiral Galaxy

Dec 30, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy LEDA 22057. This Hubble image shows LEDA 22057, a...

This all-sky photo of the night sky was compiled using images taken by astrophotographer Eckhard Slawik from the best and darkest locations around the globe. Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / E. Slawik / M. Zamani.

NOIRLab Releases High-Resolution Images of 88 Constellations and Colossal Photo of Night Sky

Dec 24, 2024 by News Staff

NSF’s NOIRLab, in collaboration with ESA/Hubble, has released a collection of free, high resolution images of all 88 constellations and the largest open-source,...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Dark Energy is Misidentification of Variations in Kinetic Energy of Universe’s Expansion, Scientists Say

Dec 23, 2024 by News Staff

Dark energy — an unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate – doesn’t actually exist, according to new research. This...

This Hubble image shows NGC 337, a barred spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of NGC 337

Dec 23, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 337. This Hubble image shows NGC 337, a barred spiral galaxy some...

Concept art of two white dwarfs with the same mass but different temperatures; the hotter star (left) is slightly puffier, while the cooler star (right) is more compact. Image credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa / Johns Hopkins University.

Hotter White Dwarfs are Slightly Puffier than Cooler Ones, New Study Says

Dec 18, 2024 by News Staff

Using a catalog of 26,041 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have confirmed a long-predicted effect in these ancient ultradense...

This image indicates the location of the binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: ESO / Peißker et al. / S. Guisard.

Binary Star System Detected Close to Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Dec 17, 2024 by News Staff

Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Keck telescope, astronomers have discovered a binary star system in the S star cluster close to...

This Webb image shows NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in the study. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Olivia C. Jones, UK ATC / Guido De Marchi, ESTEC / Margaret Meixner, USRA.

Protoplanetary Disks around Sun-Like Stars Appear to Live Longer in Early Universe

Dec 16, 2024 by News Staff

In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive exoplanet around a very old star. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the...

A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2566, and spiral arms emerge from each end of the bar. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Focuses on Beautiful Barred Spiral Galaxy: NGC 2566

Dec 16, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2566. A prominent bar of stars...

The internal structure of Io as revealed by the present study. Image credit: Sofia Shen / NASA / JPL / Caltech.

Jupiter’s Moon Io Does Not Have Subsurface Magma Ocean, Study Suggests

Dec 13, 2024 by News Staff

Volcanic activity on Io — the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter and the most volcanically active body in the Solar System — is unlikely to...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is in the process of assembling and forming new stars, existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang, and weighs about the same as our Milky Way Galaxy if we could wind back the clock to see our Galaxy as it developed. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / C. Willott, NRC-Canada / L. Mowla, Wellesley College / K. Iyer, Columbia.

Webb Discovers Actively Forming Low-Mass Galaxy in Early Universe

Dec 12, 2024 by News Staff

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, the newly-discovered galaxy existed approximately 600 million years after the Big Bang and consisted of a least 10 star...

Webb Validates Hubble’s Distance Measurements

Dec 11, 2024 by News Staff

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope confirms previous measurements by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of distances between...

An artist’s concept of Messier 77, featuring its powerful black hole and accretion disk, and never before seen polarization in water masers outside of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NRAO / S. Dagnello.

Astronomers Spot Magnetic Filaments in Accretion Disk around Messier 77’s Central Black Hole

Dec 11, 2024 by News Staff

Messier 77 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. An artist’s concept of Messier 77,...