Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found…
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Astronomy
NuSTAR Makes Illuminating Discoveries With ‘Nuisance’ Light
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously…
Did Rapid Spin Delay 2017 Collapse Of Merged Neutron Stars Into A Black Hole?
When two neutron stars spiral into one another and merge to form a black hole —…
Astronomers Map Mysterious Element Ytterbium In Space
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the…
NGC 3576: Massive Stars Revealed by Chandra
NGC 3576 is a giant HII region of glowing gas located about 9,000 light years from…
Cosmic Flashes Pinpointed To A Surprising Location In Space
Astronomers have been surprised by the closest source of mysterious flashes in the sky called fast…
Colossal Black Holes Locked In A Dance At The Heart Of A Galaxy
Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear…
Galaxy Collision Creates ‘Space Triangle’ in New Hubble Image
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in…
Hubble Examines a Star-Forming Chamaeleon Cloud I (Cha I)
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide…
IXPE Sends First Science Image
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data…