Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…
NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently…
NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time
By Michael Allen For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a…
NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object
A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…
NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster
Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s…
Space scientists’ cosmic calendar has 12 out-of-this-world wonders | Northwest & National News
This Hubble image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds in the outskirts of a star-forming region called…
Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe
Balls of gas with a black hole at their centre could glow like a star Shutterstock / Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi…
NASA’s Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star.…
Contactless method tracks electrical flow in matter hotter than sun
Deep inside stars, giant planets, and even Earth’s core, matter exists in a strange in-between state—neither solid nor…
Hubble Glimpses Galactic Gas Making a Getaway
A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away…
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’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas…