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A 31.5 solar-mass black hole with an 8.38 solar-mass black hole companion viewed in front of its (computer generated) stellar nursery prior to merging. CREDIT © Aaron M. Geller / Northwestern CIERA & NUIT-RCS; ESO / S. Brunier

Unveiling The Origins Of Merging Black Holes In Galaxies Like Our Own

by SpaceRef EditorJune 30, 2023July 15, 2024

This deep galaxy field from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal, thread-like line. (Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.) This 3 million light-year-long filament is anchored by a very distant and luminous quasar – a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. The quasar, called J0305-3150, appears in the middle of the cluster of three circles on the right side of the image. Its brightness outshines its host galaxy. The 10 marked galaxies existed just 830 million years after the big bang. The team believes the filament will eventually evolve into a massive cluster of galaxies. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona), and Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

NASA’s Webb Identifies The Earliest Strands Of The Cosmic Web

by SpaceRef EditorJune 30, 2023July 15, 2024

Euclid encapsulation

Civil, Launch, News

SpaceX to launch European astronomy mission

by Jeff FoustJune 29, 2023June 29, 2023

The ESA Euclid (left) and NASA Roman space telescope, shown together in this artist’s concept, will explore the cosmic mystery of dark energy in complementary ways. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, ESA/ATG medialab

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up to Investigate Dark Energy

by SpaceRef EditorJune 28, 2023July 15, 2024

This image taken by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows a part of the Orion Nebula known as the Orion Bar. It is a region where energetic ultraviolet light from the Trapezium Cluster — located off the upper-left corner — interacts with dense molecular clouds. The energy of the stellar radiation is slowly eroding the Orion Bar, and this has a profound effect on the molecules and chemistry in the protoplanetary disks that have formed around newborn stars here. Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), and the PDRs4All ERS Team

Webb Makes First Detection Of Crucial Carbon Molecule

by SpaceRef EditorJune 26, 2023July 15, 2024

Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Woke Up 200 Years Ago, NASA’s IXPE Finds

Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Woke Up 200 Years Ago, NASA’s IXPE Finds

by SpaceRef EditorJune 25, 2023July 15, 2024

The movement of the extrasolar planet AF Lep b (white spot at about 10 o’clock) around its host star (center) can be seen in these two images taken in Dec. 2021 and Feb. 2023. Images were collected using the W. M. Keck Observatory’s 10-meter telescope in Hawaiʻi. Image credit: Kyle Franson/University of Texas at Austin.

Direct Images of ʻJupiterʻs Younger Siblingʻ

by SpaceRef EditorJune 25, 2023July 15, 2024

Artistic illustration of a gamma-ray burst CREDIT International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani

Stellar Demolition Derby Births Powerful Gamma-ray Burst

by SpaceRef EditorJune 24, 2023July 15, 2024

Black Hole

New Study Weighs The Universe’s Supermassive Black Holes

by SpaceRef EditorJune 21, 2023July 15, 2024

NGC 7292

Hubble Captures a Billowing Irregular Galaxy

by SpaceRef EditorJune 19, 2023July 15, 2024