Cosmos
Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making
Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has released a new video showing changes in Kepler’s Supernova Remnant over more than two and a half decades, using data from observations taken in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2014, and 2025. The supernova remnant is located about 17,000 light-years from Earth […]
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A Rare Gourd
A Rare Gourd NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Calabash Nebula, showing the death of a low-mass star. The star is undergoing a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, expelling its outer layers into space. The ejected material is moving at incredible speeds, with gas shown in yellow […]
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How will the universe end?
How will the universe end? The universe will likely continue to exist for billions of years, but its future is uncertain and subject to change. In a few billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might collide, resulting in a spectacular view for future observers. Star formation will eventually shut down, leading to galaxies […]
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Light pollution is encroaching on observatories around the globe – making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos
Light pollution is encroaching on observatories around the globe – making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos Light pollution from human activity is encroaching on observatories around the world, making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos. The rate of human-produced light in the night sky is increasing by as much as […]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released an image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula to celebrate its third anniversary, revealing new structural details and features. The telescope used its NIRCam camera to capture the nebula, which shows massive young stars carving away at nearby gas and dust. […]
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How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World
How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World NASA’s SPHEREx mission has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone to use the data to probe the secrets of the cosmos. The mission will map the entire sky in 102 different wavelengths (or […]
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Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center
Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. The black hole contains 174 million times the mass of our Sun and is actively growing, emitting bright X-ray light that can pierce through thick clouds of dust. UGC […]
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NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon” NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a surprisingly strong black hole jet at cosmic “noon,” which occurred about three billion years after the universe began. The jet, located 11.6 billion light-years from Earth, was illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang and […]
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Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located 160,000 light-years away from Earth. The image features wispy gas clouds that resemble brightly colored cotton candy due to the use of specialized filters on the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. […]
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Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds
Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds Galaxy clusters PSZ2 G181.06+48.47 are on course to collide again for the second time, with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes capturing evidence of this rare cosmic event. The galaxy cluster, located 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, has already experienced a collision about a […]
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