Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out…
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Astronomy
Chandra Looks At R Aquarii
This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that steadily burns at a…
Shadow Of Cosmic Water Cloud Reveals The Temperature Of The Young Universe
An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background…
Nearly 1,000 Mysterious Strands Revealed In The Milky Way’s Center
An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000…
Hubble Examines a Star-Forming Chamaeleon
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide…
Hubble Spots a Starship-Shaped Galactic Pair
The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A.…
Mysterious Object Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant…
Hubble Sights a Sail of Stars
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the…
Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous…
There Are 40 Billion Billions Of Black Holes In The Universe
How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most…