NGC 7456, a spiral galaxy 51 million light-years away in Grus, looks like just a blob of stars at first glance. This Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 image pulls you in with its warm glow, patchy spiral arms and pink bursts where stars .. ...
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Designed to map galaxies, the SPHEREx mission's first science result is instead about interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS. No, it's not ...
Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe ...
In our own Milky Way, a recently deceased star creates a ghostly, hand-like shape in X-rays some 150 light-years wide. Here's how it's ...
A few months ago, I started a tradition: each time I release a new version of Astronoby, I write a ...
Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like planets may gradually collect superheavy dark ...
One of the oldest recognised constellations, it appears on Babylonian clay tablets and Ptolemy's second-century list ...
A star is at the heart of the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 light-years away in Scorpius, hidden behind a curtain of dust so thick it was invisible. The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) has lifted that curtain and for the first . ...
Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous "Hand of God" pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA's Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At the center is pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning ...
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