A Hubble Space Telescope image of the symbiotic star Mira HM Sge. Located 3,400 light-years away…
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First map of outflows from nearby quasar I Zwicky 1
Artist’s impression of outflows from a quasar. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser SRON astronomers have for the first…
Astronomers observe giant outburst of a distant X-ray binary
Long-term light curve of EXO 2030+375 in the 30–50 keV band as seen with INTEGRAL-ISGRI in…
Entangled neutrinos may lead to heavier element formation
The abundance pattern based on calculations in this paper (ν i-process pattern; purple line), compared with…
NOAA’s hurricane hunting GOES-U satellite nears SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hurricanes Michael, Dorian, Ian, Nicole and Idalia have all been stared down…
Tracking a low-mass star as it speeds across the Milky Way
A simulation of a possible explanation for an L subdwarf named CWISE J124909+362116.0’s speed shows it…
Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation
The sulfur-laden atmosphere discovered on gaseous exoplanet GJ 3470 b, show here in an illustration orbiting…
NASA watches Mars light up during epic solar storm
Credit: NASA In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how…
Webb opens new window on supernova science
The JADES Deep Field uses observations taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part…
Many nearby star clusters originate from only three ‘families’
The Alpha Persei star cluster: An optical image of the Alpha Persei star cluster from the…