The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
Perseid meteor shower puts on light show in night sky over North Bay
The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions…
A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC
Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving particles…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Ancient collision with the Gaia Sausage dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago may have flipped the Milky Way by more than 90 degrees, astronomers say
Ancient collision with the Gaia Sausage dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago may have flipped the Milky Way…
How to photograph the stars using your phone
Here are Hayati’s tips for snapping stunning starscapes with a phone, as well as some suggestions that could…
A Missing Black Hole Was Found Hiding in a Giant Star Cluster. Astronomers Think There Could Be Thousands More
Astronomers charted a star’s path over 20 years as it circled an invisible object that was rather hefty.…
A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds
The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never…
Biggest Digital Camera Ever Will Take Pics for Next Decade
The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe.…
NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Milky Way’s outer reaches may stretch farther than previously known
A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further…