Hubble captures puzzling galaxy with gas-free center and dusty ring
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 2775. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and...
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New instrument at SOAR achieves first light with observations of remarkable binary star system
The SOAR Telescope at Cerro Pachon. Credit: CTIO/SOAR/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received...
Space dust is spongier than we thought, say scientists
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might...
Two Neptune-sized exoplanets discovered around a young sun-like star
Top: unflattened TESS lightcurve of TOI-6109. Middle: flattened lightcurve with two best-fit transit models for planets b and c. The...
Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf’s atmosphere
Artist's impression of white dwarf WD 1647+375 accreting icy planetary fragments from a pluto-like world, creating the chemical signature idenfitifed...
JWST searches for stars in a glowing gas cloud
Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared...
Rogue planet SIMP-0136 displays strong auroral activity similar to Northern Lights
An artistic impression of SIMP-0136. Credit: Dr. Evert Nasedkin Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather...
New catalog compiles more than 100 ‘spider’ pulsars that consume stellar partners
The comparably tiny spider pulsar blasts its much bigger neighboring star with so much energy that the side facing it...
Gravitational wave detectors affected by daylight savings time
Aerial view of the LIGO observatory in Hanford, Washington. Credit: LIGO Observatory Interference from human activity has always been a...
Supermassive black hole spews gas at record speeds, upending mass estimates
Artist’s impression of a rapidly feeding black hole that is emitting powerful gas outflows. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/M. Zamani One...