Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered ...

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Astronomers are struck by images of the Whirlpool Galaxy not just because of their beauty, but because this is how our own Milky Way would appear if we could look back on it from a similar remove.

Astronomers have studied this nearby spectacle for decades, but JWST got a closer look than any past ob­servatory. “The Webb images are really amazing,” says Fesen, who led the first team ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

An avid amateur astronomer Unimpressed with store-bought ... Stars and galaxies essentially remained unmoving in the images, but anything closer could be visually identified by its motion across ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Astronomers have captured the highest resolution infrared images of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. The ...