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This image, captured by the Gemini South telescope, shows the planetary nebula NGC 6302. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Miller & M. Rodriguez, International Gemini Observatory & NSF’s NOIRLab / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Gemini South Telescope Focuses on Butterfly Nebula

Nov 28, 2025 by News Staff

To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South telescope to image the...

An artist’s impression of Quaoar and its two rings. Quaoar’s moon Weywot is shown on the left. Image credit: ESA / Sci.News.

Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests

Nov 24, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28, likely making it the faintest satellite ever found around...

Traveling through our Solar System at a staggering 209,000 km (130,000 miles) per hour, 3I/ATLAS was made visible by using a series of colorized stacked images from September 11-25, 2025, using the Heliocentric Imager-1 instrument, a visible-light imager on NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / Lowell Observatory / Qicheng Zhang.

Three Heliophysics Spacecraft Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Nov 24, 2025 by News Staff

NASA’s STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory), the NASA/ESA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), and NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify...

This Hubble image shows part of the star-forming cloud N159. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

New Hubble Image Brings Gigantic Star-Forming Cloud into Focus

Nov 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a massive star-forming cloud located about 160,000...

Webb’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yinuo Han, Caltech / Ryan White, Macquarie University / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Spots Four Distinct Dust Shells around Two Wolf-Rayet Stars

Nov 20, 2025 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared...

This ultraviolet image shows the coma of 3I/ATLAS as seen on October 9, 2025, by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft using its IUVS camera. The brightest pixel at center indicates where the comet is. The surrounding bright pixels show where hydrogen atoms were detected coming from the comet. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / LASP / CU Boulder.

MAVEN Sends Back Ultraviolet Images of 3I/ATLAS

Nov 20, 2025 by News Staff

The new ultraviolet (UV) images from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) camera aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)...

This image of 3I/ATLAS was captured by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 2, 2025. Image credit: Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Snaps Close-Ups of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

The new images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will allow astronomers to better...

This image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on October 3, 2025 by the CaSSIS instrument aboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter. Image credit: ESA / TGO / CaSSIS.

TGO Provides More Accurate Information about Path of 3I/ATLAS through Solar System

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

Thanks to the data collected by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft orbiting Mars,...

This image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured with the Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16, 2025. Image credit: Satoru Murata.

Astrophotographer Captures Stunning New Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Nov 18, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A member of the ICQ Comet Observations group has released a new image of 3I/ATLAS, the third object and the second comet from outside the Solar System...

An artist’s impression of the Solar System. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

Our Solar System is Moving More Than Three Times Faster than Expected

Nov 17, 2025 by News Staff

To determine the motion of the Solar System, Bielefeld University astrophysicist Lukas Böhme and his colleagues analyzed the distribution of radio galaxies. An...

This Hubble image NGC 4535, a spiral galaxy located some 52.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / F. Belfiore / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of NGC 4535

Nov 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4535. This Hubble image NGC...

The Pleiades. Image credit: NASA / ESA / AURA / Caltech / Palomar Observatory.

Pleiades Star Cluster is Part of Much Larger Stellar Structure, Astronomers Say

Nov 13, 2025 by News Staff

Also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, the Pleiades — an open star cluster about 440 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus...

The image shows NGC 1866 superimposed with a false color image from the MUSE data cube, where the ionized shell of the planetary nebula Ka LMC 1 is seen as a red ring. The grayscale insets illustrate the different size of the ionized shells of singly ionized nitrogen [N II] and doubly ionized oxygen [O III]. The magnified Hubble image near the center of the ring reveals the presence of a pale blue star -- most probably the hot central star of Ka LMC 1. Image credit: AIP / M.M. Roth / NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Astronomers Discover New Planetary Nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud

Nov 12, 2025 by News Staff

During a spectroscopic study of stars in the massive young globular cluster NGC 1866 in a Milky Way satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

This image of 3I/ATLAS was captured on November 8, 2025, by astronomers from the ICQ Comet Observations group. Image credit: M. Jäger / G. Rhemann / E. Prosperi.

Astronomers Capture Post-Perihelion Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Nov 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Some of the latest images of 3I/ATLAS — the third confirmed interstellar object to be detected passing through our Solar System, following 1I/ʻOumuamua...

This Hubble image shows NGC 1511, a barred spiral galaxy some 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydrus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Sees Peculiar Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1511

Nov 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1511. This Hubble image shows...

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.

Our Universe Has Already Entered Decelerating Phase, Study Suggests

Nov 6, 2025 by News Staff

New research from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, casts doubt on the long-standing theory that dark energy is driving distant galaxies away increasingly...

An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star engulfing a giant exoplanet. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / M. Garlick / M. Zamani

Aging Stars May Be Destroying Close-In Giant Exoplanets, Astronomers Say

Nov 5, 2025 by News Staff

At the end of their main-sequence life span, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a period of evolution. This stellar evolution is predicted to...

This Webb image shows the Red Spider Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / J.H. Kastner, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Webb Captures Red Spider Nebula

Nov 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of the Red Spider Nebula,...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4102, an intermediate spiral galaxy 55.4 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / G. Fabbiano.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of NGC 4102

Nov 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a luminous galactic center and majestic spiral arms in this new view of NGC 4102. This Hubble image shows NGC...