Hubble’s image shows a spiral galaxy passing through NGC 1275, with dust lanes and areas of star formation. Cygnus X-1, a black hole 10,000 light-years away, pulls matter from its companion star, ...

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes ... a detailed analysis of Cygnus X-3, a high-mass binary system containing a Wolf-Rayet star and a likely black hole. Using high-resolution X-ray ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies around 260 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces.

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Thursday, February 6, 2025: Vast Space is making vastly large leaps in the development of the California-based company's first space station, Haven-1 ... (photos) Tuesday, February 4, 2025: Hubble ...

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR J0357 for short), apparently has a long, bright X-ray tail streaming away from it.

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

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 the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have ...