Neptune as you’ve never seen it before, imaged by Webb telescope
The newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope has once again turned its attention to planets closer to home, capturing Neptune in a remarkable way......»»
Daily Telescope: Two large galaxies swimming in a sea of interstellar dust
"I think of the civilizations in those galaxies looking back at the Milky Way." Enlarge / Galaxies in a sea of interstellar dust. (credit: Chris McGrew) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkn.....»»
Image: Hubble captures Arp 295
One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-light-year-long bridge of stars and gas that stretches between two of the galaxies. The galaxies.....»»
Gemini South captures twisted dusty disk of NGC 4753, showcasing the aftermath of past merger
The lenticular galaxy NGC 4753, captured by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, is a truly remarkable object. Its prominent and complex network of dust lanes that twist around its ga.....»»
Daily Telescope: A stunning image of a star cluster in a nearby galaxy
A bright young star within a colorful nebula. Enlarge / This image features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a.....»»
Image: Hubble spies side-by-side galaxies
A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular galaxy, NGC 274, is visible on the right side of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, and the barred spiral, NGC 275,.....»»
Webb sees dozens of young quasars in the first billion years of the universe
Within almost every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Millions, sometimes billions of solar masses are locked within an event horizon of space and time. They can power luminous quasars, drive star formation, and change the evolution of a galaxy. B.....»»
James Webb snaps a stunning stellar nursery in a nearby satellite galaxy
A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a star-forming region in the nearby galaxy of the Large Magellanic Cloud......»»
Image: Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847......»»
Daily Telescope: Shooting a laser into the sky from Antarctica
"The camera is looking roughly south across McMurdo Sound and the Ross Ice Shelf." Enlarge / Shooting lidar into the night sky. (credit: Steve Erskine) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkne.....»»
Webb Telescope captures massive star-forming complex
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized, capt.....»»
The next generation LIFE telescope could detect some intriguing biosignatures
The Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) project is an ambitious plan to build a space telescope with four independent mirrors. The array would allow the individual mirrors to move closer or farther apart, similar to the way the Very Large Arra.....»»
Vera Rubin will help us find the weird and wonderful things happening in the solar system
The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is something special among telescopes. It's not built for better angular resolution and increased resolving power like the European Extremely Large Telescope or the Giant Magellan Telescope. It's built around a massiv.....»»
Daily Telescope: Looking up to brilliant skies Down Under
"It was taken using my mobile phone, a Google Pixel 7 Pro." Enlarge / The night sky from Australia. (credit: Erin Mikan) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough.....»»
James Webb Space Telescope celebrated on new stamps
Beautiful images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope have landed on a new set of stamps issued this week by the U.S. Postal Service......»»
New US Postal Service stamps feature iconic NASA Webb images
The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail stamps celebrating NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex telescope ever put in space. The stamps, issued Jan. 22, feature images of the cosmos captured.....»»
Hubble captures an exceptionally luminous supernova site
This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the aftermath of an epic explosion in space, caused by the death of a massive star......»»
James Webb Space Telescope: Finally, the edge of the universe and beyond
Launched in 2021 on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex, precise and powerful space observatory ever built......»»
Image: Hubble views a galactic supernova site
This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study a supernova explosion in 2010 kno.....»»
Webb reveals that galaxy mergers are the solution to early universe mystery
One of the key missions of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is to probe the early universe. Now, the unmatched resolution and sensitivity of Webb's NIRCam instrument have revealed, for the first time, what lies in the local environment of.....»»
Brightness peak of M87 supermassive black hole shifts 30 degrees in one year
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium......»»