Slowly spinning dark matter halos may explain mysterious ‘little red dots’ in the early universe
Distant galaxies appear scattered across the night sky in this deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The...
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Ultra-metal-poor star discovered in Milky Way’s halo
On-sky location of GDR3_526285, Small Magellanic Cloud, and Large Magellanic Cloud in Galactic coordinates. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025)....
Hubble captures stunning view of third interstellar visitor
Image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera on 21 July 2025. Credit: NASA/ESA Astronomers using...
Dancing dwarf galaxies predict the Milky Way’s future
A high-resolution color image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope...
Venus and Jupiter’s bright morning conjunction – Astronomy Now
Get ready for a clash of the titans when Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in our Solar System,...
ALMA observations reveal dual fragmentation modes in high-mass star-forming cloud
Left: Morphological structure of the HFS in target region I18308, showing core spacing distribution. The HFS molecular cloud consists of...
The universe’s first stars unveiled in turbulent simulations
This image is from a ground-breaking simulation of the universe's primordial gas clouds. The universe's very first stars formed in...
Move over Mercury—Chiron is in retrograde: What even is Chiron?
You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: "Chiron is in retrograde." If...
It’s time again for Perseid meteors! – Astronomy Now
August means the Perseids: the annual shooting star spectacular reaches its peak to wow meteor enthusiasts with abundant bright events,...
Multiwavelength observations investigate the nature of a TeV gamma-ray binary
The 0.5–10 keV light curve of HESS J0632+057 measured by Swift. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.23304 An international team of...
