Galaxy Cruise, a citizen science project led by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has been sailing the cosmic...
An international team led by Dr. Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Astrophysics has analyzed in detail...
Stars like our sun end their lives as white dwarfs. Some of them are surrounded by a planetary nebula consisting...
Through the study of the optical to extreme ultraviolet radiation generated by the accretion of supermassive black holes at the...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of...
A new paper entitled “Evolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies,” published on August 17, 2023, in...
With excellent sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolutions, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents an unprecedented opportunity to promote...
The nearby radio galaxy M87, located 55 million light-years from the Earth and harboring a black hole 6.5 billion times...
A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part...
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space—a flash that lasts only instants but puts...
