At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...
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Fall is an incredible time for amateur astronomers to get out there and look at the night sky. Some of the most recognizable and bright objects that can be seen in the night sky make their ...
The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...
To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...
NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...
An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...