A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist’s concept of a black widow…
This image captured by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi reveals the previously unrecognized galactic home of the gamma-ray burst identified…
Distribution of the OC population in Galactic coordinates. The black points represent the reported OCs found in this study, and the red squares…
Credit: ESA Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it’s not without its issues. There continue to be…
South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white images of Earth and the lunar surface, including this photo taken on December 31,…
This image of the spectacular Sh2-54 nebula was taken in infrared light using ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. The clouds…
Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Jeremy Schnittman Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past…
ALMA image of the protoplanetary disc around HL Tauri. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the disks of gas and dust around…
The power of JWST to map galaxies at high resolution and at longer infrared wavelengths than Hubble allows it look through dust and…
GNIRS H-band acquisition image of SDSS J222551.65+001637.7AB showing the resolved white dwarf and brown dwarf components of the binary. Credit: French et al,…
Illustration showing detection of the lensed 21 cm atomic hydrogen emission signal from a distant galaxy. Credit: Swadha Pardesi Astronomers from McGill University…