Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...
Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several telescopes to create a composite containing the deepest X-ray picture ever made of ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...
An illustration of the progression of the flare ... jointly operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica; NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory; and NASA's Nuclear ...
Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known ...
The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...
Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...
Researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope data to find conclusive evidence that huge black holes can feed themselves. Such a discovery opens very important ...
Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...
Using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers ...