A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory catalog provides over 400,000 sources and detailed X-ray mapping of the Milky Way center, ...
Deep in the heart of the Milky Way, a mysterious cluster of stars is defying the laws of stellar evolution. How do they survive the violent environment of a supermassive black hole? This video ...
A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...
Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...
On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...