Astronomy Archives

Deadly relationship between huge O-type stars and small forming stars

Astronomers witness mysterious, never-before-seen disintegration of asteroid

Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes ‘spy’ one of the youngest galaxies in the Universe

Astronomers discover planet that shouldn’t be there

It’s hot…super hot: Finding answers around the sun

Ripped apart by a black hole

Dusty surprise around giant black hole

X-ray view of a thousand-year-old cosmic tapestry

Hubble takes a gander at secret depths of Messier 77

Millisecond pulsars: the discovery of deceleration

Quantum Computing Has Applications in imaging

Cosmic curiosity reveals ghostly glow of dead quasar

New Haven, Conn. — While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffl…