Tag: Astrophysics

Illustration of an exoplanet in the early universeDarryl Fonseka/Alamy Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with ...

This shimmering cosmic curtain shows interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago ...

WASHINGTON — Retirements and reassignments have led to a reshuffling of leadership in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. At ...

This image gazes toward the heart of the Milky Way, in the direction of its core. Credit: ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) ...

Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? ...

A superflare erupts from a young sunlike star in this artist’s impression. Credit: CfA/Melissa Weiss Solar flares are bright flashes ...

Hundreds of overlapping objects at various distances are spread across this field. At the very center is a tiny galaxy ...

Slipher’s spectral measurements of the Andromeda and Sombrero spiral nebulae, as they were called at the time, showed these objects ...