NICER Status Updates
June 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem...
Category : Stars
A Star Like No Other
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. X-ray:...
Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds
X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen...
Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
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NASA’s Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic “Bone”
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic...
Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song
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Like Sands Through the Hourglass…
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and...
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
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X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Univ Mexico/S. Estrada-Dorado et al.; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI (M. Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector); Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand; A planet may have...
Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting
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