A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a ...

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A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the ...

From sparkling galaxies to gargantuan nebulae spanning thousands of light years across, check out these 7 rare images of ...

NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes captured NGC 6240, two galaxies colliding in a rare pre-merger stage, surrounded by foreground stars. NGC 2467, discovered in the 19th century, is a huge ...

Another kind of supernova is called type I. That happens when two stars orbit each other. One star may start siphoning the ...

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are ...

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