One in five distant galaxies could be hidden behind cosmic dust, scientists say, discovering two previously invisible systems 29 billion light-years away.Experts discover two galaxies…
Astronomers detect a black hole beyond our galaxy for the first time
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1850. Credit: ESA, NASA and Martino Romaniello (European Southern Observatory, Germany). It is a cluster of thousands…
The brilliant “butterfly wings” of the PN M2-9 Nebula
Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble This new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the impressive complexity of the PN M2-9 Nebula, also known as the…
The Greatest Mysteries of Neptune
Image credit: NASA In 1846, when European astronomers debated what to name a newly discovered eighth planet, they finally settled on Neptune, in honor of…
Astronomers may have detected a strange ‘missing link’ black hole in our closest neighbor
Globular cluster B023-G78 in the Andromeda galaxy. (Pechetti et al., ArXiv, 2021) A rare treasure that could shed light on the evolution of black holes…
The Cat’s Eye Nebula
Image credit: NASA Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543, Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most…
The Lagoon Nebula and the Trifid: a smile in the sky.
The Lagoon Nebula (M8 or NGC6523) is a beautiful stellar nursery about 5,000 light years away from us and that we can find in the…
How does the immune system work in the human body?
In every second of a human’s life there are bacteria, viruses and fungi that try to enter the body to make it their permanent home.…
NGC 1850 and the young black hole
Large Magellanic CloudThe Large Magellanic Cloud captured by ESO’s VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) telescope || Credits: ESO / VMC Survey (Enlarge).…
How do black holes grow? The answer lies in the expansion of the universe, according to scientists
Are there black holes with masses greater than 50 suns? Yes, and scientists point out that this responds to that they grow along with the…