NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...

In 2005, the Hubble Telescope captured a stunning image of the Crab Nebula, revealing the aftermath of a supernova explosion seen by astronomers in 1054 AD. Captured in 2006, the Hubble Telescope's ...

and more observations and theory are needed to understand this nebula, but our observations provided an important piece of the puzzle!"Studies have been carried out over the past year to shed ...

Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart NBC files FCC 'equal time ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

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Indeed, some of the proplyds seen by Hubble in the Orion nebula did seem to have faint objects at their centers that could be brown dwarfs. The problem, though, was that the observations gathered ...

Here are 42 of the telescope's finest observations ... image from JWST and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a dead star at the heart of the famous Crab Nebula blasts twin jets of radiation ...