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…
