How we detect exoplanets?
Exoplanets are typically close to a star and since a star is much more luminous than the planet, direct detection…
Astrophysics
How was the moon born?
Probably, the Moon was born from a blow that the Earth took. More than 4 billion years ago, our planet…
V404 Cygni • Huge Rings Around a Black Hole
This image features a spectacular set of rings around a black hole, captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil…
Strange star is coming out of the Milky Way at enormous speed
About 2,000 light-years away from Earth, there is a star catapulting itself towards the edge of the Milky Way. This…
Galactic cluster magnetic field can bend black hole jets
Some supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are active and eject relativistic jets thousands or even millions of…
Strange galaxies
Galaxies can take on the most disparate shapes: for example AM 0644-741 (bottom right) has the shape of a ring!…
XMM-Newton • Captures the final screams of the star destroyed by the black hole
In 2019, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatory studied a black hole devouring a star and discovered an exceptionally bright…
The Crab nebula
In 1054 AD, during the Song dynasty, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright new star in the night sky. This newcomer…
Scientists observe gas recomposition in dying galaxies for the first time
A new study by scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggests that previously displaced gases can…
Cygnus X-1: The black hole that started it all
Cygnus X-1 was first discovered when a pair of Geiger counters were blasted high into the atmosphere aboard a sub-orbital…