Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…
Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar…
Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years
About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and…
First known black hole star discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what appears to be a previously unseen kind…
Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image
A new image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captures a well-documented patch of the universe in exceptional…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A – NASA
In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy…
Little Red Dot at Redshift 2: Real and Simulated Graphic
Scientists analyzed Hubble’s ultraviolet- and Webb’s infrared-imaging and spectroscopic archival data, respectively, to confirm lower-redshift spiral galaxy WISEA…
NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on…
Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…
APOD: 2026 July 12 – Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams
APOD: 2026 July 12 – Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams Discover the cosmos! Each day a…