Deep in the heart of the massive Perseus cluster, giant galaxies stir, stars are torn from their homes and hot gas radiates ...

More than twice the expected amount of novae have been found popping off along the jet from M87’s supermassive black hole.

Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian ... gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a nearby, faint dwarf galaxy named VCC 2062. The two galaxies have undergone a violent collision ...

ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an ...

Do you remember the first time you truly discovered the universe? When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I bought my first telescope, a Celestron 8. I remember excitedly unboxing it the day it ...

These novae occur when hydrogen accumulates on a white dwarf from its companion star ... At the heart of the elliptical galaxy M87, a supermassive black hole powers a plasma jet that shoots ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of the elliptical galaxy M87 fires a powerful plasma ... where one star dumps hydrogen onto a white dwarf companion. When enough hydrogen accumulates ...

Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian ... gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a nearby, faint dwarf galaxy ...

It combines features of spiral and elliptical galaxies, with ongoing star formation and evidence of past collisions with a dwarf galaxy, challenging its classification as strictly one type. Credit: ...

ESA's Euclid mission has unveiled a 208-gigapixel mosaic showing a vast area of the southern sky. This preliminary data, covering more than 500 times the area of a full Moon, aims to shed light on ...

In the Hubble telescope image below, the colossal elliptical galaxy M87, which is shaped like ... and shedding its layers — and a white dwarf star, which is the hot core of a sun-like star ...