The bluish-white spiral galaxy NGC 1376 hangs delicately in the cold vacuum of space. Credit: NASA,…
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New ultra-short period binary discovered
TMTS light curve and Lomb–Scargle periodogram for J0526. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.13612 Using the Tsinghua…
Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are few things more peaceful and relaxing than a night under…
First pulsar detected in globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01
VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. Credit: McCarver et al., 2023. Using…
First release of the largest extragalactic HI catalog
The promotional image shows the project about the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) All Sky…
Meet the infrared telescopes that paved the way for NASA’s Webb
Clouds of gas and dust in space—like Rho Ophiuchi, shown here—mostly radiate infrared light, which human…
A new way to characterize habitable planets
Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near…
NASA’s Juno to get close look at Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on Dec. 30
This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October…
Hubble captures throng of spiral galaxies
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; CC BY 4.0 Acknowledgement: L. Shatz This…
Curiosity captures a martian day, from dawn to dusk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty…