Inside the Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward […]
astronomy
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes make their way through the […]
The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured by planet Earth’s Event […]
The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave
This supernova shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Near the middle and […]
Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained
How fast do elementary particles wobble? A surprising answer to this seemingly inconsequential question came out of Brookhaven […]
Alnitak and the Flame Nebula
What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a […]
When Black Holes Collide
What happens when two black holes collide? This extreme scenario occurs in the centers of many merging galaxies […]
Zodiacal Night
An intense band of zodiacal light is captured in this serene mountain and night skyscape from April 7. […]
Messier 106
Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), […]
3D Ingenuity
The multicolor, stereo imaging Mastcam-Z on the Perseverance rover zoomed in to captured this 3D close-up (get out […]