A stunning image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a previously unexplored globular cluster, glittering with multicolored stars. Known as ESO 591-12, or Palomar 8, this cluster is a spherical gathering of tens of thousands to millions of stars, all tightly bound by gravity. Globular clusters like this one formed early in their host galaxy’s…
🔎 The Discovery Astronomers discovered a giant planet, HIP 67522 b, located about 400 light-years away, that orbits its star so closely it likely causes frequent flares from the star’s surface. These flares heat and inflate the planet’s atmosphere, making it one of the most extreme planetary environments ever observed. 🌍 Key Facts On Earth,…
A Tribute to Dr. Vera Rubin and the Discovery of Dark Matter The Andromeda galaxy dark matter story began in the 1960s, when Dr. Vera Rubin and her team made a groundbreaking observation. While studying the motion of stars in Messier 31 (M31), better known as the Andromeda galaxy, they noticed something unusual. Stars at…
The universe rarely sleeps — and in June 2025, it’s wide awake. From solar flares rattling our skies to fossil-like formations on Mars and private astronauts docking with the ISS, the cosmos is stirring with discovery and drama. Here’s your guided tour through the most thrilling celestial updates of the month: 1. Mars Unveils a…
Light from the spiral galaxy UGC 11397 took 250 million years to reach the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble used this ancient light to create the image above. The galaxy lies in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, it seems like an ordinary spiral galaxy. It has two elegant arms lit by stars…
The mysteries of space have fascinated scientists and dreamers alike. Among the most mind-bending phenomena in the cosmos are black holes, wormholes, and the concept of time loops. These aren’t just science fiction—they are rooted in the mathematics of Einstein’s relativity and the latest frontiers of astrophysics. Let’s explore how these cosmic concepts may shape…
NASA’s PUNCH mission (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) has just shared its first-ever images of massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. These stunning visuals were unveiled on Tuesday at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The newly released images, compiled into a video, capture…
Emil Andronic from Hemel Hempstead, U.K. The unusual shape of NGC 3718 is a barred spiral galaxy with an unusual, twisted shape —likely due to interactions with nearby NGC 3729. Lying around 120 million light-yearsaway, it’s also listed as the 214th entry in Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Thisimager took 37⅓ hours of LRGB…
This artist’s concept depicts a magnetar – a type of neutron star with a strong magneticfield – losing material into space. Shown as thin green lines, the magnetic field linesinfluence the movement of charged material around the magnetar.NASA/JPL-Caltech Since the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amountof lithium. Later, some…
The Galaxy Zoo classification interface shows you an image from NASA’s Webb telescopeand asks you questions about it.Image credit: Galaxy Zoo, Zooniverse. Inset galaxy: NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/S.Finkelstein/M. Bagley/Z. Levay/A. Pagan NASA needs your help identifying the shapes of thousandsof galaxies in images taken by our James Webb SpaceTelescope with the Galaxy Zoo project. Theseclassifications will help scientists…
