This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442, nicknamed the…
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Astronomy
NASA’s Chandra Opens Treasure Trove of Cosmic Delights
This selection of images of different kinds of light from various missions and telescopes have been…
Heaviest Black Hole Merger Is Among Three Recent Gravitational Wave Discoveries
Scientists observed what appears to be a bulked-up black hole tangling with a more ordinary one.…
Zooming In On Dark Matter
Cosmologists have zoomed in on the smallest clumps of dark matter in a virtual universe –…
A Direct View Of Star/Disk Interactions
A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for…
Hubble Views Edge of Stellar Blast
While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the…
Continuous Infrared Winds Discovered During The Eruption Of A Stellar Mass Black Hole
Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as…
Hubble Maps Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of…
New Observations Of Black Hole Devouring A Star Reveal Rapid Disk Formation
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart,…
Where Are Stars Made? NASA’s Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot
The most massive stars in the universe are born inside cosmic clouds of gas and dust,…