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Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky,...
A team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located...
Potential signs of the rainbow-like “glory effect” have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful...
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages...
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master’s student Sam de Regt...
Galaxies start life with their stars rotating in an orderly pattern but in some the motion of stars is more...
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration—which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to...
New analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas
At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups....
Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final...
