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Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk NASA | GSFC | STScI | HubbleSite | ESA Hubble | 2023 May 04 The young star TW Hydrae is playing ‘shadow puppets’ with scientists https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/heic2305a.jpg In 2017 astronomers reported discovering a shado...

Astronomers Witness Star Devouring Planet: Possible Preview of the Ultimate Fate of Earth NOIRLab Science Release | Gemini South | 2023 May 03 Gemini South captures first direct evidence of an exoplanet being swallowed by an ancient Sun-like star https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/scr...

Astronomers Find Distant Gas Clouds with Leftovers of the First Stars ESO Science Release | 2023 May 03 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2306a.jpg Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found for the first time the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the U...

Centaurus A Shines in New Image from Chandra and IXPE NASA | MSFC | SAO | Chandra X-ray Observatory | 2023 May 02 https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2023/cena/cena.jpg The galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) shines bright in this image combining data from multiple observatories. In the center of this galaxy is a ...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/special/fermibubbles_art_small.jpg Art and Science, Truth and Beauty No matter how you view it, there's an awesome beauty in the cosmos. We are exceedingly fortunate to live in a time when technology exposes this beauty for our appreciation, study...

Ghostly Galactic Jellyfish ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 May 01 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2318a.jpg Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Spa...

A Scarlet Cosmic Sea ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 May 01 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2318a.jpg In this colorful Picture of the Week we see a portion of the Gum 10 nebula through the eyes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Gum 10 was discovered by the Australian astronomer Colin Sta...

Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star? NASA | GSFC | STScI | Webb Telescope | 2023 May 01 https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GYT3Z2RQDNDAWZT9R8Y9V06E.jpg The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbitin...

Astronomers Detect the Closest Example Yet of a Black Hole Devouring a Star Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2023 Apr 28 The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts. https://news.mit.edu/sites/default/files/s...

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Bizarre Exoplanet Breaks All the Orbital Rules Universe Today | 2023 Apr 30 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/exoplanet-2000x1200.jpg In our solar system, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation. Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets ...

Could This Copycat Black Hole Be a New Type of Star? Johns Hopkins University | 2023 Apr 20 Though the mysterious object is a hypothetical mathematical construction, new simulations by Johns Hopkins researchers suggest there could be other celestial bodies in space hiding from even the best telesco...

Uncovering a Star’s Demise: Supermassive Black Hole Tears Apart a Giant Star in a Display Brighter, More Energetic and Longer Lasting Than Any Observed Before Purdue University | 2023 Apr 25 https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/2023/milisavljevic-scarybarbieLO.jpg A distant star, dying a fiery and dra...

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A Cosmic Overpass NOIRLab Image of the Week | 2023 Apr 26 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2317a.jpg Above the peaks of Cerro Pachón lies a bridge made of stars, intangible yet visible to the naked eye. This beautiful arch, composed of the Milky Way with its network of ne...

Astronomers Image for the First Time a Black Hole’s Shadow Together with a Powerful Jet ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) | 2023 Apr 26 First Direct Image of a Black Hole Expelling a Powerful Jet ESO Science Release | 2023 Apr 26 https://cdn.eso.org/images/large/eso2305a.jpg For the first time, astronomers have...

Milky Way Trapped the Large Magellanic Cloud with Its Gravity. What Comes Next? Universe Today | Scott Alan Johnston | 2023 Apr 23 The_Large_Magellanic_Cloud_revealed_by_VISTA-1834x1200[1].jpg Large Magellanic Cloud ~ Credit: ESO/VMC Survey Our galaxy’s largest nearby companion is the Large Magella...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/technology/rhessi_small.jpg The Return of RHESSI Of all the damage which may come to earth from the cosmos, from killer asteroids to deadly supernova explosions , solar flares are perhaps the likeliest event to impact our civilization. Solar flare...

Webb Reveals Early-Universe Prequel to Huge Galaxy Cluster ESA Webb | ESA Space Science | 2023 Apr 24 https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2023/04/webb_reveals_early-universe_prequel_to_huge_galaxy_cluster/24846003-1-eng-GB/Webb_reveals_early-Universe_prequel_to_huge_gal...

The Cluster That Almost Got Away ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 24 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2317a.jpg Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds fill this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. A...

A New Planet Is Born ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 24 https://cdn.eso.org/images/large/potw2317a.jpg This Picture of the Week shows a newly-formed planet with a mass similar to Jupiter’s orbiting the star HD 169142 . The star has a disc around it, and as the protoplanet moves it carves a circu...

Nebular Harvest NOIRLab Image of the Week (KPNO) | 2023 Apr 19 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2316a.jpg Observing the night sky has never been so delightful as with this image of LBN 867 , the Raspberry Nebula. Captured here by the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope u...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/transients/grb221009a_ixpe_small.jpg The Shape of the Brightest Burst On October 9, 2022, a cosmic explosion, now known as GRB 221009a, blasted earth with dangerous high-energy radiation. This blast came from a gamma-ray burst , the most powerful ...