TESS telescope has found a nearby super-Earth
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) telescope discovered a relatively close super-Earth exoplanet, at 31 light-years from us.
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The Strangest Black Hole discovered
Hubble discovers mysterious black hole disc, 130 million light-years away, at the center of the galaxy NGC 3147.
Stunning Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet
Using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 astronomers capture the stunning Eta Carinae nebula in ultraviolet light.
A Whirlpool ‘Warhol’ from NASA
Unlike Andy Warhol’s famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of this galaxy represent how its appearance changes in different wavelengths
The Universe’s First Type of Molecule Is Found at Last
Scientists on the airborne observatory SOFIA detected the first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe.
See how really Huge the M87 Black Hole is
Take a look at this stunning image comparison by Randall Munroe, of our Solar System and the new image of the M87 Black Hole, to appreciate how
First Observation of a Supermassive Black Hole in a Radio Galaxy
First observation of torus surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of powerful Radio Galaxy.
The first ever direct Observation of an Exoplanet
Cutting-edge VLTI GRAVITY instrument using optical interferometry, breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, by revealing details of a storm-wracked exoplanet.
Hubble’s stunning details of 2 Colliding Galaxies
NGC 6052, a pair of colliding galaxies, located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away.
Astronomers Accidentally Discovers a New Galaxy
Astronomers using Hubble accidentally discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away.