The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a little known galaxy called UGC 12682.
This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy UGC 12682....
The detection of a radial magnetic field across the inner ring of SNR 1987A, the remnant of a supernova first witnessed three decades ago, provides insight...
On December 10, 2001 Australian amateur astronomer Robert Evans discovered a supernova in the outer edge of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy located in the southern...
A new study from Cardiff University suggests there may be a cosmic lack of phosphorus, a crucial ingredient for life.
This is a mosaic image, one of the...
New images from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have revealed a ring-shaped structure in the young supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219...
Astronomers have discovered a supernova that occurred 10.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was less than a quarter of its present age.
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Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely energetic cosmic explosion they think originates from a very massive star or the environment of a supermassive...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed an extremely rare cosmic phenomenon, called a ‘light echo,’ in Messier 82, a star-forming galaxy located...
An international team of astronomers led by Las Cumbres Observatory has found a remarkable object in a nearby galaxy: a star that exploded multiple times...
Suggestions that the hypothesized Planet 9 formed outside our solar system, or was even stolen from a rival solar system, have been dealt a blow by investigations...
Astronomers have detected the first X-rays from a Type Ia supernova, located inside the spiral-shaped galaxy ESO 336-G009.
An image showing X-rays detected...
In a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org preprint), Professor George Fuller of the University of California, San Diego,...
A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered a revolutionary way to generate high-energy shock waves in the lab.
Peering deep into the core of the...
Water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals called tardigrades will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes, and be...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), two teams of astronomers have discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the center of...
