Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars
Scientists have directly imaged eight dim objects accompanying very bright stars within the Gaia data catalog, including so-called “failed stars,”…
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Scientists have directly imaged eight dim objects accompanying very bright stars within the Gaia data catalog, including so-called “failed stars,”…
In December 2019, astronomers were stunned when the core of a relatively sedate galaxy 300 million light-years away abruptly lit…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit…
New findings by MIT show early supermassive black holes grew rapidly from large cosmic seeds, challenging previous understandings of galaxy…
A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our…
Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, there is a cosmic structure known as IRAS 23077+6707 (IRAS 23077) that resembles a giant…
At first glance, the image doesn’t look like much: a few smatterings of bright, yellow stars among dimmer white ones.…
A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole…
In a world that seems to be switching focus from the Hubble Space Telescope to the James Webb Space Telescope,…
Most stars in the Milky Way just hang around doing pretty normal star things, but one particular star just will…