A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...
Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea ...
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The early black-hole mass problem has vexed astronomers for years. JWST, and the Hubble Space Telescope before it, have ...
"In this new composite image, the Chandra data (purple) shows the diffuse X-ray emission and young stars in Cygnus OB2, and ...
Space telescopes are prominent uses of optical technologies. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is renowned for its ...
This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see ...
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
The gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829 is an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. The Little Dumbbell Nebula, located 3,400 light-years away, is found in the northern ...
This Hubble image of Messier 2’s core was created using observations taken at visible and infrared wavelengths. This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of ...