Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MOTHRA reveal the Helix Nebula. We can see the bow shocks, particularly on the left.
“We’re not just studying astronomical objects anymore; we’re using them to test the laws of nature.”
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual supernova.
“These are among the best moments in science: seeing something new, unexpected.”
Imagine if Star Wars’ Tatooine twin suns went supernova. Scientists may have just found that in our universe.
The Dark Energy Camera has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, with the star-forming region resembling a cosmic take on Van Gogh’s The Starry Night.
“Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn’t see these four stars directly.”
For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding one of the Milky Way’s most unusual pulsars, confirming a decades-old prediction about how particles stream away from the rapidly spinning stellar corpse.
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. How do black holes at the center of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much earlier in the universe’s history. New research suggests NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which […]