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Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the…
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This…
Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025.…
The inside of a star turned on itself before it spectacularly exploded, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra…
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a…
A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according…
Editor’s Note: This post highlights a combination of peer-reviewed results and data from Webb science in progress, which has not…
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a…
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from…
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have…
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new…
NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our…
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years…
Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic “bone” in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA’s Chandra…
How are we made of star stuff? Well, the important thing to understand about this question is that it’s not…
New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models allow…
This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula’s…
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown…
A planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula — the first…
A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made…