This view is a combination of images from ALMA and the Very Large Telescope. The central object is a very distant galaxy, labelled BDF 3299, which is seen when the Universe was less than 800 million years old. The...
A visualization of a computer simulation of a Type Ia supernova. Ejected material (brown) from an exploding white dwarf star crashes into its companion star (blue), yielding an ultraviolet pulse of light streaming from the companion star's location.
Credit: Daniel...
The Cosmic Snake is the image of a distant galaxy, deflected by a strong gravitational lens.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, A.Cava
We have a fair understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that regulate star formation in galaxies, from the interstellar matter to the...
Primer Exchange Reaction (PER) cascades enable the autonomous growth of single-stranded DNAs. On the top, a 'catalytic PER hairpin' binds a first 'primer' (shown as a short grey strand), triggers its elongation with a sequence encoded by the hairpin...
Artist’s impression of the Fomalhaut system. The newly discovered comet belt around Fomalhaut C is shown to the left. The comet belt around Fomalhaut A is in the distance to the right. The belt around Fomalhaut A is offset...
This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1. This remarkable cluster contains hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of almost one million suns. European astronomers have for...
This visible-light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake-shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy. The disk glows brightly in the light of ionized nitrogen. The central star is...
ALMA detected radio signals from 19 different molecules at the center of this galaxy.
Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Ando et al. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Ryo Ando, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues observed...
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a snapshot of about 10,000 galaxies in a tiny patch of sky, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), the HUDF Team
Scientists will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope...
Asteroid Trails Streak Across This Deep-Space View of Thousands of Galaxies. Photobombing asteroids from our solar system have snuck their way into this deep image of the universe taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These asteroids are right around...
The deep image of Messier 77 taken with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted at the Subaru Telescope. The picture is created by adding the color information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Note 1) to the monochromatic image acquired...
