Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog ...
NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the ...
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...
Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...