This App Points You Straight at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
If you want to stay grounded—which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality—do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass:…
Hubble images a pair of galaxies caught in the process of merging
After last week’s image of the week from the Hubble Space Telescope showed a cluster of galaxies that appeared to be very close to each other but actually weren’t, this…
The Heart of the Milky Way Glows With Unprecedented Detail in New Webb Image
The center of our galaxy is a menagerie of exotic objects; a supermassive black hole, clouds of hot gas, and giant stars that can help inform the origin story of…
Stunning James Webb image shows the beating heart of our Milky Way
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of our galaxy, in a region close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky…
Gaia Mission Discovers Half a Million New Stars and 150,000 Asteroids
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster,…
Cosmic Question Mark Spotted in Deep Space Suggests the Universe Is Stumped
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the eerie punctuation mark, found buried within an image of Herbig-Haro 46/47—a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars located 1,470 light years from…
Gaze in Wonder at These Stunning Views of the Cosmos
The Milky Way over Pain de Sucre, France.Photo: Jeff Graphy The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena—from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to…
Browse through 3B celestial objects in Milky Way survey
A new survey of the Milky Way has been released containing more than 3 billion objects, making it one of the largest astronomical catalogs ever produced. The second data release…
Astronomers find remnants of planets around 10 billion year old stars
Astronomers discovered something special orbiting two ancient white dwarfs: the remains of planets, making this one of the oldest known rocky planetary systems.
This amazing Milky Way image was taken on an iPhone
Astronomer and author Tom Kerss recently captured a wonderful shot of the Milky Way using his iPhone 12 Pro Max and its RAW capabilities.