The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4666 lies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo…
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Astronomy
Did A Black Hole Eating A Star Generate A Neutrino?
In October 2019, a high-energy neutrino slammed into Antarctica. Click here for original…
Seeking The Star Stuff That Made Us
At the 2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, two independent research groups…
Scientists Recreate Cosmic Reactions To Unlock Astronomical Mysteries
Experiments will give scientists a closer look at how exploding stars create world’s heaviest elements. …
Hubble Detects A Dangerous Dance
Their delicate galactic dance takes place more than 100 million light-years from Earth. The lower galaxy,…
Astrophysicists Explain The Origin Of Unusually Heavy Neutron Star Binaries
A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can…
Process Leading To Supernova Explosions And Cosmic Radio Bursts Unearthed
A promising method for producing and observing on Earth a process important to black holes, supernova…
Hubble Views Galaxy NGC 5728
Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. Click…
Euclid Telescope Ready For Extreme Space Environment
ESA’s Euclid mission has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the…
Hubble Captures A Cluster In The Heart Of The Milky Way
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced…