NASA’s Valentine's Day Surprise Will Take Your Breath Away
This image was created by combining data from three major observatories: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space ...
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Astronomers have brought you a space Valentine: The Tarantula of the cosmos
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
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80 million pixels reveal the brilliance of a star cluster
RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...
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This New ‘Astro Trail’ in Arizona Is Located in One of the ‘Astronomy Capitals of the World'—and Makes Stops at Observatories, State Parks, and More
In January 2025, the city added another feather to its cap when it launched a new Astro Trail, a curated collection of ...
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A Supermassive Black Hole Is on a Collision Course With The Milky Way
A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...
NASA’s Valentine surprise: Hubble Telescope shares a mesmerising cosmic bouquet of stars
NASA releases stunning composite image of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, showcasing thousands of young stars, energetic ...
From collisions to stellar cannibalism—the surprising diversity of exploding white dwarfs
Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...