Gum 39 is one of several nebulae in a vast stellar nursery called the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944), which is located about 6,500 light-years away in...
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has taken a striking new image of the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 5248.
This Hubble image shows NGC 5248, a grand...
TIC 290061484 contains a pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days. The discovery smashes...
The new image of the Rosette Nebula was taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American...
Astronomers using the Keck II 10-m telescope have discovered evidence for an Earth-mass planet and a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet...
These giant, hot bubbles of gas on the surface of R Doradus are approximately 75 times the size of our Sun, according to a paper published in the journal...
This milestone promises to enhance our understanding of the Sun’s atmosphere and how its changing conditions lead to impacts on our technology-dependent...
At least 140 million Sun-like stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are likely to have experienced a similar stellar flyby, according to new research by a team...
The Hubble team has released a striking new photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the open cluster NGC 346, which resides in one of our...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a detailed image of a spectacular central part of the Triangulum Galaxy.
The Triangulum...
Using the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered...
Astronomers using the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have observed Polaris, a member of a triple system and the nearest and...
Despite recent progress, the question of what regulates the star formation efficiency in galaxies remains one of the most debated problems in astrophysics....
Swift J1818.0-1617 is located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.
An artist’s impression of the magnetar Swift...
Using data from the MeerKAT radio telescope and NSF’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered ten new millisecond plusars in the globular cluster...
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found a large number of metal-poor stars older than 13 billion years on orbits similar to that of...
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other telescopes, astronomers have found evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in IRS 13,...
Established in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, the current definition specifies that to qualify as a planet, a celestial body must orbit...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a new infrared image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142.
This...
