The new image of the dwarf irregular galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte demonstrates the remarkable ability of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to...
The newly-discovered core-collapse supernova, or Type II supernova, seen at a lookback time of approximately 11.5 billion years, is strongly lensed by...
Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy have captured a new view of two bright nebulae: NGC 3603 and NGC 3576.
This...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
Astronomers using the 268-million-pixel OmegaCAM instrument on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a detailed image of the Vela supernova remnant,...
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...
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...
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...
The newly-discovered black hole resides in the binary system Gaia DR3 4373465352415301632 with a main-sequence star that is slightly smaller than the Sun....
Protostars are the scene-stealers in this new image of the Pillars of Creation from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA...
An image of the binary system WR 140, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, has baffled astronomers worldwide — even...
ZTF J1813+4251 is a 51-minute-orbital-period, fully eclipsing binary system consisting of a star with a temperature comparable to that of the Sun but...
The very first stars likely formed when the Universe was only 100 million years old. Known as Population III stars, these stellar objects were so massive...
A light pillar is an optical phenomenon where a column of light can be seen emanating from a light source. If the light comes from the Sun, the phenomenon...
Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, was observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
Novae are caused by runaway thermonuclear burning in the hydrogen-rich atmospheres of accreting white dwarfs, which leads to a rapid expansion of the atmosphere...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of IRAS 05506+2414, an enigmatic stellar object surrounded by a shroud...
