Astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting Vega, a young star located 25 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the star-forming region AFGL 5180.
This Hubble image shows AFGL 5180, a stellar...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the reason for the dimming of a red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris.
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The majority of supermassive black holes lie dormant and starved of fuel; these hidden giants can be temporarily illuminated when an unlucky star passes...
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the 5-million-year-old protoplanetary system SU...
A team of astronomers from Spain, Italy and Germany has discovered a short-period super-Earth exoplanet circling the nearby red dwarf Gliese 740.
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A black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary system is so massive that it challenges current stellar evolution models.
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus...
New images captured by the SITELLE instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, reveal an intricate honeycomb-like arrangement...
K2-290A, the primary star in the triple stellar system K2-290, is tilted by 124 degrees compared with the orbits of both of its known planets, and has...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a trio of hot planets orbiting a much younger version of our Sun...
Astronomers have detected lithium in the atmospheres of four cool and old white dwarfs, of which one also displayed atmospheric potassium. The relative...
NASA has released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a small region on the edge of the dark nebula Caldwell 99.
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Using a newly developed system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging, astronomers from the Breakthrough Watch Initiative say they can now use ground-based...
Sagittarius A East (Sgr A East), a supernova remnant located strikingly close to the central supermassive black hole of our Milky Way Galaxy, resulted...
Magnetic interactions between the newfound planet, designated Gliese 1151b, and its host star are the likely source of low-frequency radio emission recently...
Astronomers using the MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured a remarkable image of the spiral galaxy...
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home, astronomers have found that...
KIC 8462852, a mysteriously dimming star located about 1,480 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus, is, in fact, a binary stellar system, made...
Astronomers using with the Australian National University 1.3-m SkyMapper telescope have detected an extended dark matter halo around Tucana II, an ultrafaint...
