Astronomy 2023: Top Sky Watching Highlights for the Coming Year
Astronomy 2023 highlights include two fine solar eclipses, the Sun heading towards solar maximum, a series of spectacular lunar occultations and much more.
Webb Stares Deeply Into the Universe, Showing How Galaxies Assemble
The James Webb Space Telescope is delivering a deluge of images and data to eager scientists and other hungry-minded people. So far, the telescope has shown us the iconic Pillars of Creation like we’ve never seen them before, the details of very young stars as they grow inside their dense cloaks of gas, and a …
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Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
The Perfect Tidal Tail Connects These two Galaxies Seen by Hubble
Sometimes it’s tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies. But the Universe is big, huge even, and nature’s flow presents many fascinations. So it is with the galactic triplet Arp 248, an arrangement of interacting galaxies that’s both visually and scientifically fascinating.
Hubble saw Multiple Light Echoes Reflecting off Rings of Dust From a Supernova Explosion
Using images from Hubble, an international team of astronomers created a video that shows the evolution of a supernova and the resulting light echo
How Dangerous are Nearby Supernovae to Life on Earth?
Life and supernovae don’t mix. From a distance, supernovae explosions are fascinating. A star more massive than our Sun runs out of hydrogen and becomes unstable. Eventually, it explodes and releases so much energy it can outshine its host galaxy for months. But space is vast and largely empty, and supernovae are relatively rare. And …
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Record ‘Fast Nova’ Flares Over a Single Day
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy!
A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive black hole!
This is it! On May 12th we’ll see the Event Horizon Telescope’s Image of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at the ESO’s headquarters on May 12th!