Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
Violent Collision May Have Destroyed Milky Way’s First Stellar Disk
New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our Galaxy and triggered a burst of…
Hubble and JWST reveal thousands of young star clusters emerging from their birth clouds
A young star cluster does not begin life in the open. It starts buried inside thick clouds of…
The Edge of Our Galaxy Eluded Scientists for Years. They Finally Found It.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have long wondered where the Milky Way’s edge…
Hubble Captures Spiral Galaxy Packed with Brilliant Star Clusters: NGC 3137
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3137,…
Most Close Pairs of Stars Are Born as Cosmic Twins
An artist’s rendition of pair of twin stars being born in the HOPS-312 system in Orion. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF…
Radio Telescopes Reveal Masses of Young Stars in Orion
The star’s life, from its luminescence to death, depends on the stellar mass. The star’s mass also tells…
Hubble’s 36th Birthday Image Shows Trifid Nebula
A new anniversary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals surprisingly fast evolution in a turbulent stellar…
Warm gas ring found around a newborn star
A phenomenal event residing in the frigid dark of the Taurus molecular cloud. Kyushu University and Kagawa University…
Magnetic Fields Mapped in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
Molecular clouds, which are dense areas of gas and dust, are the birthplace of stars. Gravity pulls on…
Webb Focuses on Spiraling Star Factory: NGC 5134
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have produced a spectacular infrared image of the spiral galaxy…
Evidence Found for Dark Galaxy in Perseus Cluster
The new dark galaxy candidate is dominated by dark matter and nearly devoid of light. Named Candidate Dark…