Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have observed seven interacting galaxy systems that have long, tadpole-like tidal tails of gas,...
Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array have captured the most detailed radio image ever seen of 47 Tucanae, the second brightest...
The ‘Christmas Tree Cluster,’ also known as NGC 2264, is located approximately 2,600 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros.
This composite...
The newly-discovered brown dwarf has an estimated mass of 3-4 Jupiter masses, making it a strong contender for the least massive free-floating brown dwarf...
The oldest of these stars is 1.5 billion years old while the youngest is only 100 million years old, according to a paper published in the Astrophysical...
Spider pulsars are a type of millisecond pulsar that strips their companion stars of their atmospheres through energetic winds.
This composite image shows...
A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at NGC 2210, a globular cluster situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected abundant water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen cyanide and acetylene...
Sagittarius C lies approximately 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
An estimated...
The Euclid team has released a beautiful new image of NGC 6397, one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. NGC 6397, or GCl 74, is located 7,800 light-years...
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope have found the remnants of 106 galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
Strongly nucleated...
A new image taken with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows streamers of gas and dust studded with...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of the globular cluster Terzan 12, a vast, tightly bound collection...
Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory have produced a spectacularly detailed infrared...
Earendel, the farthest known star, is a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous, according to an...
NASA has released a high-resolution close-up image of the globular cluster NGC 6652 captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This Hubble image...
ESO astronomers have released an absolutely beautiful image snapped by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) of the Sh2-284 nebula.
This image from ESO’s VLT...
Using infrared spectral data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias astronomer has detected the aromatic amino acid...
The Hubble team has released a very beautiful close-up shot of the star-studded globular cluster NGC 6544.
This Hubble image shows NGC 6544, a globular...
Messier 4 is a globular cluster full of ancient stars in the constellation of Scorpius, approximately 7,200 light-years away.
Vitral et al. suspect that...
