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Galaxies, Milky Way

The Milky Way and Andromeda may not merge, after all

Artist's impression of colliding neutron stars

BlackHoleFinder invites you to discover new black holes

An image from the James Webb Space Telescope showing wispy pink-purple filaments and a scattering of stars.

What are the smallest brown dwarfs? The JWST has a new answer

ALMA detected water vapor in HL Tauri's disk. Here it’s shown in blue. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al

Astronomers observe oceans of water vapor in a region where planets likely form

A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive Mount Erciyes volcano, is active again! Credit: Kayseri Erciyes A.Ş. Ski Resort.

Astronomy invites you to view the Perseids from an inactive Turkish volcano

NASA's Valentine's Day card saying, "I nova you're the one for me!"

From cute to cringe, NASA has a Valentine’s Day card for you

By using the NASA's JPL — Small-body Database Lookup, the orbit of 469219 Kamo'oalewa can be displayed alongside Earth's orbit. The orbits appear to be nearly identical but just shifted. In the bottom-left corner it provides the distance from Kamo'oalewa to Earth and to the Sun. Credit: NASA

Evidence builds that Kamo’oalewa is a chunk of the Moon accompanying Earth

The contributions from NASA’s Chandra X-ray data provide the blue and white flickering lights from young stars and the green pine needles come from the optical data collected by the National Science Foundation’s WIYN Observatory.

Astrophotography, Exotic Objects, Observing

Merry Christmas from the cosmos

A multi-wavelength photograph of of the galactic center, containing the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and the young, target star cluster, IRS13. The image also shows foreground and background objects.

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

Astronomers study an unlikely stellar fountain of youth

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

The El Gordo galaxy cluster moves faster than you might think

A visual representation of the tilted accretion disk model, the black hole's vertical spin axis, and the precessional jet directions.

Exotic Objects, Science

Study reveals M87 has a spinning black hole

Artist's rendition of a tidal disruption event

Exotic Objects, Science, Stars

A torn-up star is revealing the intensity of a supermassive black hole’s grip