Supermassive black holes give birth to stars, astronomers discover
These stellar gourmands gobble up stars but also form them from rapid outflows of gases A team of astrophysicists has…
Astronomy
Observing M5
During these summer vacation months, if you find yourself under dark skies and you are equipped with quite powerful binoculars…
The Topsy Turvy Galaxy
The Topsy Turvy Galaxy (also known as NGC 1313, PGC 12286, and ESO 082-G 011) is a spiral barred galaxy,…
An Entire Swarm of Black Holes Has Been Caught Moving Through The Milky Way
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of…
The Cosmic Zoo!
This is a composite of images taken over several years (2010, 2015, 2018), most recently using a 200mm Pentax lens…
A Galactic spectacle
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA’s Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about…
The Shape of the Southern Crab
The symmetric, multi-legged appearance of the Southern Crab Nebula is certainly distinctive. About 7,000 light-years distant toward the southern sky…
LANIAKEA SUPERCLUSTER
This term has been appearing since September 2014. Many of you may not have heard what it is about, but…
Meeting Despina
Despina is a small moon of Neptune with an average diameter of only 148 km. It was discovered in 1989…
The beautiful NGC 2392
When a star of similar mass to the Sun enters the final stages of its life, it expels its surface…