Hubble Spots Spiral Galaxy Warped by Cosmic Forces
A stunning new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the lopsided intermediate spiral galaxy NGC…
Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole
After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to…
Astronomers Discover Four New White Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood
Using near-UV spectroscopic data from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers…
LEGO Hubble Space Telescope Set Celebrates Three Iconic Hubble Photos
I have loved LEGO since I was a child, just coming to grips with fine motor control. I…
Webb Celebrates Fourth Year of Science By Showing Off its Cutting-Edge Cameras
To celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope’s fourth anniversary of scientific operations, NASA, ESA, and CSA have unveiled…
Hubble Peers into 13-Billion-Year-Old Globular Cluster
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of NGC 6426, an ancient globular…
X-Ray Telescope Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday With Cosmic Fireworks
In celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday, NASA has unveiled four new images from its…
Hubble Detects Ultraviolet Light from Tiny Starburst Galaxy in Early Universe
Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, MXDFz4.4 — a galaxy 100 times smaller than the Milky…
Hubble Delivers Beautiful Photo of a Glowing Cosmic Chandelier
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong and delivering unbelievably beautiful deep-space images. The latest Hubble…
223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture
‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…
Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5
A globular cluster typically has only one ancient star population. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…