Astronomers believe they have discovered a rare giant flare erupting from an extremely magnetic dead star, or magnetar, that is bright enough to light up an entire galaxy. If true, …
Optical g-band image of NGC 4262 taken with CFHT. The horizontal solid yellow line in the lower left corner indicates an image scale of 10 kpc. The inset shows an …
Archival Chandra image of ACT-CL J0329. Image source: Sikhosana et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers conducted radio observations of a giant galaxy cluster called ACT-CL J0329.2-2330 and detected …
Researchers may have solved the mystery of why a distant galaxy surrounded by an unusually perfect “Einstein ring” is denser than it should be: The giant galaxy has been discovered …
Huge clusters of galaxies distort space-time to the point where they act like lenses. The light from more distant galaxies is distorted and amplified, giving astronomers the chance to see …
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a multiple-image supernova named MRG-M0138 in a distant galaxy. Two supernova images (circled) are visible in the Webb NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) image above, …
Nature, in her infinite creativity, provides natural astronomical lenses that allow us to see objects beyond the normal range of our telescopes. They’re called gravitational lenses, and a few years …
Helsinki Galaxy Energy, China’s leading launch startup, has secured $154 million in funding to develop the reusable Pallas-1 rocket. On December 18, Galaxy Energy announced that it had received 1.1 …