From Nebulae Shaped Like a Cranium to Giant Stellar Bubbles: The Universe as You’ve Never Seen It

From frozen landscapes on Mars to distant galaxies glowing across unimaginable distances, modern astronomy continues to reveal a universe far more vast and mysterious than we once imagined. Through the lenses of powerful space telescopes and planetary missions, scientists and photographers have captured images that not only advance our understanding of space, but also invite […]
Astronomers Discover Disc Around Star in Another Galaxy for the First Time

“When I first saw evidence for a rotating structure in the ALMA data I could not believe that we had detected the first extragalactic accretion disc, it was a special moment,” says Anna McLeod, an associate professor at Durham University in the UK and lead author of the study published today in Nature. “We know […]
Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of the Milky Way

Amid the estimated 500,000 stars in the image is a cluster of protostars – stars that are still forming and gaining mass – producing outflows that glow like a bonfire in the midst of an infrared-dark cloud. At the heart of this young cluster is a previously known, massive protostar over 30 times the mass […]