Astronomers Find the Most Distant Stars in Milky Way’s Halo – Over 1,000,000 Light Years Away
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years…
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years…
A Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Swallows Unlucky Bypassing Star Black holes have such a voracious gravitational pull that they even swallow light. This makes them hungry…
The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a furious rate and grow through…
The researchers observed long, web-like structures that eject particles from the Sun into space. A group of researchers from Southwest Research Institute, NASA, and the…
The NASA Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, whose Mission Operations Center is located at Penn State University, discovered a blast of high-energy light from a galaxy…
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star…
The newly discovered planet and its Earth-size sibling are both in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on their surfaces. Using data…
Astronomers have discovered a nearby galaxy that is similar to galaxies in the distant, early universe by looking past the bright light of a foreground…
New observations and analysis reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart and closing, as they circle each other in the aftermath of a…
A recent study has unveiled the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy, known as the stellar halo….
ALMA and Webb Reveal Galactic Shock is Shaping Stephan’s Quintet in Mysterious Ways Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s…
What Is a Supernova? Supernovae are dramatic explosions that take place during the final stages of the death of a supermassive star. Most stages of…
Last year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible light had been detected by a…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. LEDA 48062 is the faint, sparse, amorphous galaxy…
Astronomers Reveal Secrets to Burping Black Hole with the Green Bank Telescope The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about…
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching from…
Orphaned Stars Were Lost into Intergalactic Space Long Ago In the 1960s sci-fi television show “Lost in Space” a small family of would-be planetary colonists…
Astronomers have discovered that planet formation in our young Solar System began far earlier than previously thought, with planet building blocks growing at the same…