NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the…
X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is…
Astronomers get first look deep inside a star during supernova explosion
Astronomers have peered directly at a star’s inner layers for the first time, thanks to a stellar explosion…
This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object
At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found…
If nothing escapes a black hole, could one really swallow the entire universe?
In reality, a black hole’s gravitational influence is limited. Like any other massive object, its pull weakens with…
What happens when you cross the point of no return?
Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse…
Dancing dwarf galaxies could predict the Milky Way’s future
A study from the University of Queensland has tracked dwarf galaxies to understand if the evolution of the…
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…
Hubble Captures a Tarantula – NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called…
Webb Captures Historic New Version of Hubble’s Legendary Deep Field Image
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly…
NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of…
How Supernovae Create the Universe’s Ultimate Particle Accelerators » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock When massive stars reach the end of their life cycles, they often explode in dramatic cosmic events…