Astronomers reveal how the Milky Way’s violent youth forged a calmer spiral giant
Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night…
NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other
This panoramic view of SPHEREx’s first all-sky map simulates how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions…
NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified…
Massive Stars Make Their Mark in Hubble Image
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The…
A Gigantic Spinning Filament of 14 Galaxies Could Be the Largest Rotating Structure Ever Found
This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published…
At 50 million-light-years long, scientists discover one of the universe’s largest structures
Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though,…
Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy – NASA
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775,…
Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million…
These 3 comets will soon be visible in the sky, and here’s how to observe them
Every year, numerous cosmic events can be observed from Earth, sometimes offering breathtaking spectacles, such as C/2020 F3…
Scientists Discover That the Universe Is Getting Worse and Worse
Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,”…