EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black Hole in Cen A
How do supermassive black holes create powerful jets? To help find out, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaged […]
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A Perseid Meteor and the Milky Way
It was bright and green and flashed as it moved quickly along the Milky Way. It left a […]
Pluto in Enhanced Color
Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s most […]
A Plant That ‘Cannot Die’ Reveals Its Genetic Secrets by ...
Events in the genome of Welwitschia have given it the ability to survive in an unforgiving desert for […]
Remembering NEOWISE
It was just last July. If you could see the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find […]
Mimas in Saturnlight
Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent. […]
The Unappreciated Importance of Cats (to Medical Science) by James ...
Researchers who work on the genomes of domestic and wild cats say their DNA holds clues to human […]
2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They ...
The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the […]
The Tulip and Cygnus X 1
This tall telescopic field of view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the […]
Ring Galaxy AM 0644 741
The rim of the large blue galaxy at the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years […]