Astronomy

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars.This post was originally published on this site

Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other.This post was originally […]

Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun’s tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions of high-energy particles […]

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, […]

When two black holes orbit each other, they eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. The event is so energetic that it significantly distorts the universe around […]

Astronomers studying a population of unusually X-ray-silent and overmassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope have found that they may not be as massive as they appear. The new paper, outlining a […]

The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light-years away and is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it’s so bright, it’s been studied extensively by amateur and professional astronomers alike. Also called NGC […]

Researchers working with data from the South Pole Telescope have released a major catalog of galaxy clusters, giving scientists a powerful new tool for studying how the universe grew and changed over billions of years. […]

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That’s a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling beyond the sun’s influence. A team of researchers from the Southwest Research Institute, […]

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified what may be the most distant barred spiral galaxy ever discovered, dating to a time less than 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. The paper […]