Jan 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a little-known galaxy called WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. SN 2022aajn is visible as...

Jan 21, 2025 by News Staff

The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion...

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

A century ago, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called ‘spiral nebula’ was approximately 2.5 million light years...

Jan 16, 2025 by News Staff

Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission....

Jan 14, 2025 by News Staff

In 2018, astronomers observed that the corona of 1ES 1927+654, an actively accreting, 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole located in a galaxy around 270...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dec 9, 2024 by News Staff

The swirling spiral arms of Messier 83, one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky, display a high rate of star formation and have been...

Dec 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a striking new image of the central part of NGC 5643, a grand design spiral galaxy in the constellation of Lupus. This Hubble...

Dec 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1637. This Hubble image...

Nov 25, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The sharp resolution of Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) brings into focus details of the Sombrero galaxy’s outer ring, providing insights into...

Nov 25, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 2090. This Hubble image shows NGC 2090,...

Nov 20, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a state-of-the-art instrument mounted on NSF’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at...