The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. This image is captured by Hubble Space Telescope. V838 Monocerotis is a cataclysmic binary star in the ...
Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...
"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...
The universe is vast, a size beyond what many of our imaginations can deal with, but modern technology helps shine a light.