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Planetary Debris Spotted around 11-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf

An artist’s impression of the white dwarfs WD J2147-4035 and WD J1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres. WD J2147-4035 is extremely red and dim, while WD J1922+0233 is unusually blue. Image credit: Mark Garlick / University of Warwick.
Nov 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

WD J2147-4035, an 11-billion-year-old white dwarf located 91 light-years away in the constellation of Grus, is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary systems discovered in our Milky Way Galaxy. An artist’s impression of the white dwarfs WD J2147-4035 and WD J1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres. WD J2147-4035...

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This Hubble image shows NGC 7038, a spiral galaxy some 220 million light-years away in the constellation of Indus. The color image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Jones / G. Anand / L. Shatz.

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on NGC 7038

Nov 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 7038. This Hubble image shows NGC 7038, a spiral...

This image shows the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77, which lies in the constellation Cetus, about 62 million light-years away. Image credit: ESO.

IceCube Observatory Detects High-Energy Neutrinos from Messier 77

Nov 6, 2022 by News Staff

Messier 77, also known as NGC 1068, LEDA 10266 and Cetus A, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. This image shows the barred spiral...

An artist’s concept of the Gaia BH1 binary system. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / Spaceengine / M. Zamani.

Dormant Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected 1,600 Light-Years Away

Nov 4, 2022 by News Staff

Gaia BH1 has a mass of 9.62 times the mass of the Sun and is orbited by a bright Sun-like star at about the same distance as our planet orbits the Sun....

An artist’s impression of a magnetar. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / S. Wiessinger.

Distant Magnetar Has Solid Surface with No Atmosphere

Nov 4, 2022 by News Staff

Magnetars are neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields, which can be observed in X-rays. Polarization measurements could provide information on...

An artist’s impression of a hot Jupiter in a binary stellar system. Image credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss.

Hot-Jupiter Exoplanets Slow Down Aging Process for Their Host Stars

Nov 3, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers have looked for the effects of massive, close-in planets...

This Webb image shows the highly-magnified red supergiant candidate Quyllur (white, central circle). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Diego et al., arXiv: 2210.06514.

Webb Spots Possible Red Supergiant Star in Early Universe

Nov 2, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Nicknamed Quyllur, the newly-detected red supergiant candidate is so far away that its light has taken 10.7 billion years to reach Earth. This Webb image...

An artist’s impression of an asteroid that orbits closer to the Sun than Earth’s orbit. Image credit: DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / Spaceengine.

Astronomers Discover Three Large Near-Earth Asteroids

Nov 1, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have discovered two...

This image, taken by the OmegaCAM camera at ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, shows a spectacular view of the orange and pink clouds that make up the Vela SNR. OmegaCAM can take images through several filters that let through light of different colors. In this particular image of the Vela SNR, four different filters were used, represented here by a combination of magenta, blue, green and red. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ Team / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

OmegaCAM Snaps Beautiful Image of Vela Supernova Remnant

Nov 1, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the 268-million-pixel OmegaCAM instrument on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a detailed image of the Vela supernova remnant,...

An artist’s impression of an intermediate-mass black hole. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Modeling Study Sheds New Light on Quantum Properties of Black Holes

Oct 31, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

University of Queensland theoretical physicist Joshua Foo and his colleagues form the University of Queensland, Perimeter Institute and the University...

This image shows two member galaxies, PGC 36733 (left) and PGC 36723 (right), in the Wild’s Triplet. The galaxies are a mix of pale blue and yellow in color, crossed by strands of dark red dust. A long, faint streak of pale blue joins them, extending from an arm of one galaxy and crossing the field diagonally. A small spiral galaxy, orange in color, is visible edge-on, left of PGC 36723. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Dalcanton.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Wild’s Triplet

Oct 31, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of two members galaxies of the galactic triplet Arp 248. This image...

This image of Pillars of Creation includes mid-infrared observations from Webb’s MIRI instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / Joseph DePasquale, STScI / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Sees Pillars of Creation in Mid-Infrared Light

Oct 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Webb team has released a high-resolution image of the Pillars of Creation captured by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the NASA/ESA/CSA...

The MACS0647-JD galaxy system. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / Tiger Hsiao, Johns Hopkins University / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Spots Possible Galaxy Merger in Early Universe

Oct 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers say we may be witnessing a merger of two small galaxies just 400 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy cluster MACS0647 acts as a cosmic...

IC 1623 is approaching the final stage of its merger, when a violent central inflow of gas will trigger intense starburst activity that could boost the infrared luminosity above the ultraluminous threshold. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / L. Armus / A. Evans / R. Colombari.

Webb Observes Interacting Galaxy System IC 1623

Oct 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of IC 1623, an ongoing cosmic collision between two irregular...

An UAP from a declassified video captured by a U.S. Navy aircraft. Image credit: U.S. Navy.

NASA Kicks Off Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Oct 25, 2022 by News Staff

Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), popularly known as UFOs, are of interest for both national security and air safety and NASA’s independent study...

An artist’s impression of a habitable planetary system. Image credit: Sci.News.

Technosignatures Could Be How We First Find Extraterrestrial Life, Astronomers Say

Oct 24, 2022 by The Conversation

Penn State astronomers Macy Huston and Jason Wright work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). They try to characterize and detect technosignatures...

This composite image shows Messier 99, a grand design spiral galaxy located 42 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Image credit: ESO / PHANGS.

ESO Releases Incredible Image of Messier 99

Oct 24, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

This stunning image shows the well-defined arms of the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 99. This composite image shows Messier 99, a grand design spiral...

This Hubble image shows NGC 1999, a reflection nebula some 1,350 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. The image also contains data from the OmegaCAM instrument on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / ESO / K. Noll.

Hubble Spies Mysterious Reflection Nebula

Oct 24, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble science team has released an incredibly beautiful close-up shot of the reflection nebula NGC 1999. This Hubble image shows NGC 1999, a reflection...

At the top right of the image, there are arrows indicating the direction of impact by NASA’s DART spacecraft. The direction of impact arrow points in the 10 o’clock direction. The ‘to Sun’ arrow points in the 8 o’clock direction. At the bottom right are compass arrows indicating the orientation of the image on the sky. The north arrow points in the directly straight up. The east arrow points to the left in the 9 o’clock direction. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li, PSI / Joseph DePasquale.

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos Develops Two Tails after DART Impact

Oct 23, 2022 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two tails of dust ejected from the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger,...

An artist’s impression of the super-Earth Gliese 1252b and its parent star. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Super-Earth Gliese 1252b Has No Significant Atmosphere, Study Says

Oct 21, 2022 by News Staff

Gliese 1252b, a super-Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-dwarf star 67 light-years away, retains only a tenuous mineral exosphere. An artist’s impression...

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