A group of researchers has identified and characterized for the first time in a complete way…
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Astronomy
Planets Directly Seen Growing Around Young Star PDS 70
Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a…
Heart of Lonesome Galaxy Is Brimming with Dark Matter
Isolated for billions of years, a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than…
NICER’s Night Moves Trace the X-ray Sky
In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. …
Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait
In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, there’s a lot to see,…
A New View of Exoplanets With NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope
While we now know of thousands of exoplanets — planets around other stars — the vast…
Chandra Finds Stellar Duos Banished From Galaxies
Scientists have found evidence that pairs of stars have been kicked out of their host galaxies.…
Hubble Spies Curious Galaxy moving A Little Closer
This Hubble image stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from…
Galaxies As Cosmic Cauldrons
Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very rapidly yet…
Stellar Waltz With Dramatic Ending
Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual celestial…