Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

This breakthrough builds on more than a decade of research using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, along with several powerful ground-based observatories.

On 15 March 2024, Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT ... though they are still far more energetic than visible or ultraviolet light. The burst lasted for more than 17 minutes ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

A newly detected cosmic explosion, EP240408a, could be the result of a white dwarf's death, creating a high-speed jet. It ...

Read Spectroscopic data collected from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is overlayed on an image of the Phoenix cluster that ...

The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation. Many galaxy clusters have a region of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) ...

Herbig-Haro 46/47, a cloud in space, gives birth to new stars, captured in near-infrared light by the NASA Webb telescope . A stellar explosion 5,000-8,000 years ago is captured in ultraviolet by ...

Astronomers first became fascinated by the black hole of 1ES 1927+654 in 2018 when it flared with a major outburst seen in optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light. After this, the cosmic monster fell ...