Black holes are powerful cosmic reactors. They supply the energy for quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is due to the interplay between matter and its enormous gravitational and magnetic forces. A black hole technically lacks a…
We all see mesmerizing views when flying, but some are more exceptional than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic noticed one of these, according to a post shared on Reddit. The caption says, "Mysterious red glow seen over the Atlantic,…
With more than 200,000 photos, two astrophotographers have just published what they call the "most ridiculously detailed picture" of the Moon to date. A breathtaking single image composed of more than 200,000 individual images of the Mo…
The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing. This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalized by its companion, a much smaller, denser white dwarf.…
An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t the Sun — the red supergiant star Antares. The team has also made the first map of the velocities of mat…
So, you think you know the Milky Way? Well you don't. This new Milky Way map from NASA displays the exo-planets we've discovered so far, counting the newly confirmed exoplanet 13,000 light years away from Earth, catchily-named OGLE-201…
Astronomers have watched a giant star blow up in a fiery supernova for the first time ever — and the spectacle was even more explosive than the researchers anticipated. Scientists began watching the doomed star — a red supergiant named SN 2020tlf …
Andromeda is on a collision course with our galaxy. Now begins the best time of year to capture it with the naked eye. This is what Andromeda galaxy will look like in the night sky if it were brighter. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its neighbor …
The largest diamond in the cosmos is not found on Earth. In reality, it is a white dwarf star called BPM 37093 or V886 Centauri. An " extinct " or " dead " star is a white dwarf star. Diamond-shaped V886 Centauri floats in outer sp…
With more than 200,000 photos, two astrophotographers have just published what they call the "most ridiculously detailed picture" of the Moon to date. A breathtaking single image composed of more than 200,000 individual images of the Mo…
There are tens, hundreds, or even 1000 times more bright galaxies at the edge of space-time (soon after the big bang) than astronomers had predicted, according to the James Webb Space Telescope, which has only been observing the sky for a few weeks. …
It turns out that stars like our sun do not have to be alive and strong in order to support life on planets orbiting them. Scientists discovered a possible "major planet" circling a fading sun that might host life for future generations. …
It's difficult to look at the Sun. You will incur eye injury if you do it yourself. If you perform it on Earth with very sophisticated scientific equipment, you'll observe that the atmosphere gets in the way. You must look from space for t…
Astronomers have discovered a star system unlike any other: six stars paired up into three binary systems, all orbiting one another as a gigantic cluster. There are a handful of other sextuple star systems out there, according to The New York Tim…
We all see mesmerizing views when flying, but some are more exceptional than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic noticed one of these, according to a post shared on Reddit. The caption says, "Mysterious red glow seen over the Atlantic, pilo…
Black holes are powerful cosmic reactors. They supply the energy for quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is due to the interplay between matter and its enormous gravitational and magnetic forces. A black hole technically lacks a magn…
