VLT survey telescope
You’ll Need all the Internet to Download the Full Resolution of this New Running Chicken Nebula Image
Over 6,000 light-years from Earth, an open star cluster and its nebula cover a swathe of sky over 270 light-years…
12 months ago
A Feline in the Heavens: The Smiling Cat Nebula
A stellar nursery sounds like a placid place where baby stars go about their business undisturbed. But, of course, a…
1 year ago
There’s a New Record for the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Seen: 40 Billion Solar Masses
Astronomers have spotted a 40 billion solar mass black hole in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies. They found the…
5 years ago
An Artificial Intelligence Just Found 56 New Gravitational Lenses
A team of European astronomers recently conducted the first use of AI to identify 56 new gravitational lenses from a…
7 years ago
Future Supernova Is Surrounded By Hydrogen Clouds
The faint green glow you see in that picture is not an early harbringer of Hallowe'en spooks. It's hydrogen gas…
11 years ago