Astronomers inspect the nature of an X-ray binary with a red supergiant
An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...
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3D map reveals our solar system's local bubble has an 'escape tunnel'
A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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NASA’s Guide to Finding and Photographing Auroras
Take some trial photos and adjust your focus until you have the right focal length. When you’re testing your focus, you may ...
‘Very Scary’: What’s going on with NASA’s Sunita Williams aboard the space station?
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, along with her colleague Butch Wilmore, has been on the ISS since June 2024. Initially ...
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NASA’s Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
Pancakes in space? James Webb Telescope discovers Vega’s unexplainable cosmic flatness
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a remarkably smooth, 'pancake-like' disk of debris surrounding the star Vega, offering new insights into its cosmic environment.
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
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NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds 'danger zones' around stars
Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.
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10 stunning space images captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope
The Helix Nebula, known as the "Eye of God," is one of the Hubble Telescope’s most striking images, captured in 2003. In 2009, the Hubble Telescope captured the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), a stunning ...
The creepiest skulls ever seen in space
Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...
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The creepiest skulls ever seen in space
Ambitious space missions, like the James Webb Space Telescope and Martian rovers, are helping scientists grasp what's out there: Could any of the rocky, Earth-sized planets ... NASA's Chandra X ...