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The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) Download the full-resolution, uncompressed version and supporting visuals

Webb’s Stunning View Of Rho Ophiuchi

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 12, 2023July 15, 2024

Pinwheel Galaxy Supernova

Record-Breaking Team of Citizen Scientists Contribute Data on Pinwheel Galaxy Supernova

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 11, 2023July 15, 2024

The area highlighted in this visualization is a small part of the Extended Groth Strip, a region between the Ursa Major and Boötes constellations originally observed by the Hubble Space Telescope between 2004 and 2005.

New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 10, 2023July 15, 2024

Giant exoplanet MWC 758c

Astronomers Discover Elusive Planet Responsible For Spiral Arms Around Its Star

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 6, 2023July 15, 2024

This illustration depicts a star (in the foreground) experiencing spaghettification as its sucked in by a supermassive black hole (in the background) during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study, done with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, a team of astronomers found that when a black hole devours a star, it can launch a powerful blast of material outwards.

Astronomers Witness The Energetic Switch On Of A Black Hole

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 5, 2023July 15, 2024

Satellite constellation radio astronomy illustration

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Radio noise from satellite constellations could interfere with astronomers

by Jeff FoustJuly 5, 2023July 5, 2023

NGC 3256

NGC 3256 As Seen By James Webb Space Telescope

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 3, 2023July 15, 2024

The gravitational waves emitted by the merger of black holes, when lensed by massive objects as the waves travel toward Earth can be used to calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding Photo. Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018

A New Way Of Measuring Cosmic Expansion: Lensed Gravitational Waves

by SpaceRef EditorJuly 2, 2023July 15, 2024

Highly Irregular Galaxy ESO 174-1

Hubble Observes Highly Irregular Galaxy ESO 174-1

by SpaceRef EditorJune 30, 2023July 15, 2024

ESA's Euclid Space Telescope Is Ready for launch

ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Ready for launch

by SpaceRef EditorJune 30, 2023July 15, 2024