• Cosmic Fireworks: Hubble’s Stunning View of a Stellar Explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    Updated: 2023-12-31 19:23:21
    The Hubble Space Telescope captured this spectacular image of a stellar explosion throwing out sheets of debris in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy on...

  • Galactic Archaeology: Astronomers Discover Seismic Ripples in Oldest Spiral Galaxy

    Updated: 2023-12-31 13:46:44
    Research on an ancient spiral galaxy reveals crucial insights into early galaxy formation, highlighting rapid star formation and unique structural features compared to contemporary galaxies....

  • Revealing the Ice Giant: Uranus’s Hidden Features Uncovered by Webb

    Updated: 2023-12-31 06:16:40
    On December 18, 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope captured remarkable images of Uranus, revealing the planet’s intricate ring system and seasonal north polar cap,...

  • Wang’s Garden Lizard – Scientists Discover Unique New Iguana Species

    Updated: 2023-12-31 00:12:04
    A newly discovered iguana species adds to Asia’s diverse reptile population, having been formally recognized in the scientific community through its description in the open-access...

  • Illuminating Athens, Greece: Nighttime Wonders From Space

    Updated: 2023-12-30 15:49:17
    Stark contrasts between light and dark indicate the interface between urban and natural areas in the Greek capital. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station...

  • Harmonizing the Cosmos: How Scientists Measure Stellar Distances Through Star Music

    Updated: 2023-12-30 13:27:14
    A team of astronomers has used asteroseismology, or the study of stellar oscillations, to accurately measure the distance of stars from the Earth. Their research...

  • Oversized Ancient Galaxy Isn't What Astronomers First Thought

    Updated: 2023-12-30 09:00:08
    This galaxy is not a galaxy at all.

  • Hubble sights a galaxy with 'forbidden' light

    Updated: 2023-12-22 19:54:50
    A whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic core known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and is categorized as a Type-2 Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies, along with quasars, host one of the most common subclasses of AGN. While the precise categorization of AGNs is nuanced, Seyfert galaxies tend to be relatively nearby and their central AGN does not outshine its host, while quasars are very distant AGNs with incredible luminosities that outshine their host galaxies.

  • Researchers study a million galaxies to find out how the universe began

    Updated: 2023-12-22 19:54:43
    Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire universe.

  • Astronomers detect seismic ripples in ancient galactic disk

    Updated: 2023-12-21 21:22:27
     A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our own Milky Way.   At more than 12 billion years old, BRI 1335-0417 is the oldest and furthest known spiral galaxy in our universe. The researchers were able to not only capture the motion of the gas around BRI 1335-0417, but also reveal a seismic wave forming -- a first in this type of early galaxy.  

  • New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

    Updated: 2023-12-21 21:22:24
    While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern Observatory is bringing you a holiday chicken. The so-called Running Chicken Nebula, home to young stars in the making, is revealed in spectacular detail in this 1.5-billion-pixel image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope.

  • NASA's Hubble watches 'spoke season' on Saturn

    Updated: 2023-12-21 21:22:21
    A new photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes.

  • Supernova encore: Second lensed supernova in a distant galaxy

    Updated: 2023-12-21 21:22:19
    In November 2023, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed a massive cluster of galaxies named MACS J0138.0-2155. Through an effect called gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, a distant galaxy named MRG-M0138 appears warped by the powerful gravity of the intervening galaxy cluster. In addition to warping and magnifying the distant galaxy, the gravitational lensing effect caused by MACS J0138 produces five different images of MRG-M0138.

  • Cosmic lights in the forest

    Updated: 2023-12-21 06:28:08
    Supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the universe.

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