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Giant flare that swept passed Mars originated from a powerful neutron star in a galaxy 11.4 million light-years from Earth A giant flare was detected in April by NASA satellites as it swept passed Mars Scientists say it came from a powerful neutron star 11.4 million light-years away This is the highest burst to be … Read more
Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than first thought Japan’s space agency has created a new map of the Milky Way The team has been collecting data for the past 15 years, revealing new insights Earth is only 25,800 light years away from a supermassive … Read more
NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth, complete with glowing eyes and a carved crooked smile NASA’s Hubble telescope captured a spooky scene 120 million light-years away Deemed the ‘Greater Pumpkin’, the image is of two galaxies colliding The aging red stars are creating an orange hue that resembles … Read more
Astronomers from the Max Planck institutes has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet in another star system some 63 light years away from Earth – and have shared a picture to prove it. Called b Pictoris c, the planet was captured using the radial velocity method that detects exoplanets, along with the Very Large Telescopes … Read more
NASA telescopes have spotted a galaxy ‘far, far, away’ — 500 million light-years, to be precise — that is the spitting image of a TIE fighter from Star Wars. In the long-running space opera, these agile spacecraft named in-universe for their ‘Twin Ion Engines’ are flown by Darth Vader and the forces of the Galactic … Read more
Stunning ‘fluffy galaxy’ 67 million light-years away from Earth is spotted by NASA’s Hubble telescope Galaxy NGC 2275 and is located around 67 million light-years from Earth It can be found in the constellation of Cancer and appears to be ‘fluffy’ Feathery appearance is likely a sign that the galaxy has been quiet for some time … Read more
Caught in the Act! Astronomers spot ‘firework streamers’ 8,000 light-years from Earth celebrating the birth of a massive star cluster Astronomers witness ‘firework streamers’ in space, 8,000 light-years away They spotted formation of a new star cluster, which takes a million years The Actacama Large Millimeter captured gas forming individual stars NASA’s Hubble revealed a group … Read more
The first fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way has been traced back to a magnetar — a neutron star with a strong magnetic field — 32,616 light-years away. Fast radio bursts are mysterious, brief pulses of energy whose origins have long been unclear but are used to probe the space across … Read more
Astronomers observe ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ behavior in a double star system 19,000 light-years away that switches between X-ray and radio waves A dense cluster called Terzan 5 sits 19,000 light-years away from Earth Experts re-analyzed an image of the system snapped back in February They found that the double star system flips between X-rays and … Read more
Astronomers capture image of super-rare galaxy 11 billion light-years away from Earth that looks like a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ Star formation has been named R5519 and provides snapshot of early universe Galaxy has a hole in its centre that is two billion times the sun-Earth distance Discovery was announced in the journal Nature Astronomy … Read more