Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h, that was ejected…
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Astronomy
NICER Catches Record-setting X-ray Burst
NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station detected a sudden…
Galactic Fountains And Carousels: Order Emerging From Chaos
Scientists from Germany and the United States have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of…
TESS Presents Panorama Of The Southern Sky
The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen edgewise — arcs across a sea…
Hubble Views a Not-So-Lonely Galaxy
Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos…
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out Of A Galaxy
Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego’s Alison…
The Jack-o-Lantern Nebula
A carved-out cloud of gas and dust looks like a celestial jack-o’-lantern in this image from…
Trillions Of Stars in Messier 98
This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about…
Hubble Captures Cosmic Face
In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies…
Chandra Spots a Mega-Cluster of Galaxies in the Making
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed…