Space Archives

ESA’s Planet-Hunting Plato Spacecraft Nears Completion With 24 Eyes Ready

Artist’s illustration of the HD219134 star system. Astronomers used sound waves traveling through the star’s interior to determine its age, size, and the properties of its orbiting planets. Credit: OpenAI, based on original artwork by Gabriel Perez Diaz / Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

New Keck Findings Challenge What We Know About Stars

Solving the Black Hole Puzzle: Scientists Propose End to Troubling Singularities

$This new image features one of the Milky Way’s cosmic “bones,” known as G359.13142-0.20005—or G359.13 for short—also nicknamed the Snake. X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory (in blue) and radio data from South Africa’s MeerKAT array (in gray) reveal a striking feature: a visible break in the otherwise continuous structure of G359.13. By combining these two datasets, researchers are uncovering clues about what may have caused this fracture.$