NOIRLab: Radiant Protostars and Shadowy Clouds Clash in Stellar Nursery
The clashing of energy and matter can lead to fantastical sites on Earth, such as glowing auroras and powerful lightning ...
STScI: Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers Witness Star Devouring Planet: Possible Preview of the Ultimate Fate of Earth
By studying countless stars at various stages of their evolution, astronomers have been able to piece together an understanding of ...
STScI: Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A
The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more ...
STScI: Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar ...
NOIRLab: Dual Quasars Blaze Bright at the Center of Merging Galaxies
Astronomers using an array of ground- and space-based telescopes, including Gemini North on Hawai‘i, have uncovered a closely bound duo ...
NOIRLab: ‘Taffy Galaxies’ Collide, Leave Behind Bridge of Star-Forming Material
The Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captured this dazzling image of ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb Measures the Temperature of a Rocky Exoplanet
An international team of researchers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet ...
NOIRLab: Supernova From the Year 185: A Rare View of the Entirety of This Supernova Remnant
The tattered shell of the first-ever historically recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, ...
Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding
Science can uncover new knowledge, but it can also reveal what we don’t understand. New research is shedding light on ...
STScI: Didymos-Dimorphos System After DART Impact
Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...
NOIRLab: First Kilonova Progenitor System Identified
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have uncovered ...
