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Topic: Astronomy (page 3)

Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia))

James Webb reveals new Milky Way details

Nicole Karlis
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
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Laura Ingraham speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Ingraham schooled: "I stand corrected"

Rae Hodge
Comet (Getty Images/Ricardo Filipe/500px)

"Devil comet" to swing by Earth in 2024

Rae Hodge
The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

Rae Hodge
This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

Matthew Rozsa
Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

"Building blocks of life" in asteroid

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This illustration shows a messy, chaotic galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. (ESA/NASA/L. Calçada)

Science explains "impossible" galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA finds a surprise on an asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
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Accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK)

Black holes eat faster than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Chandrayaan-3 on the moon (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO))

Chandrayaan-3 analyzes sulfur on Moon

Jeffrey Gillis-Davis - The Conversation
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASA: No evidence UFOs are aliens, sorry

Chris Impey - The Conversation
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA. (Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Alien astrophysicist rebukes his critics

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Exoplanet concept art (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Giant new exoplanet is denser than steel

Matthew Rozsa
Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb speaks during the New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)

Proof of aliens on the deep sea floor?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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