4+ week, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) The Daily Galaxy Astronomers have characterized a rare 48-Jupiter-mass brown dwarf crossing the face of an unusually massive, aging star, creating a valuable test of how objects between planets and stars are actually born Its mass, orbit, host star, and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (642+ words) JWST has identified a distant supernova that reveals how massive stars ended their lives in the young universe. The light from SN 2023aeaf has traveled for roughly 11.7 billion years before reaching Earth, carrying information from an era when galaxies were still…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (618+ words) Using a next-generation telescope, astronomers investigated two distant sources that had puzzled researchers and found evidence pointing to a much more complex story. The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that two mysterious objects from the early universe were not…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (245+ words) A remarkable solar image captures towering plasma loops glowing along the edge of the Sun. “To see one AND catch it right on the limb AND have it happen on a clear day when I’m home and able to catch…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (712+ words) NASA’s Chandra Observatory unveils 16 galaxy images revealing the powerful forces shaping the universe. NASA has released a new gallery of 16 galaxy images combining X-ray observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with data from several major telescopes, revealing hidden structures and…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (850+ words) Fall 2026 will bring frequent meteor showers, bright planets, and several major skywatching events. The main attraction of fall 2026 will be the repeated appearance of meteor showers, offering observers frequent chances to see streaks of light crossing the atmosphere. Meteors form…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (986+ words) Scientists finally made a wave reverse in time, and the experiment revealed something even stranger than the theory predicted. For more than 50 years, physicists could calculate a prediction but couldn’t reproduce it well in the lab. At least when you…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (717+ words) Earth will darken the Moon again in 2027, but the next eclipse will create a very different spectacle from a dramatic Blood Moon. A penumbral lunar eclipse will cross the Moon on Feb. 20, 2027, creating the next opportunity for skywatchers to see…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (231+ words) Astronomers have reconstructed a massive protostellar encounter that could reveal an unexpected route to building close binary stars. Astronomers have reconstructed the turbulent assembly of two massive young stars, finding evidence that they may have formed separately before a close…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (430+ words) A star remarkably close to the Milky Way’s central black hole has given astronomers a new reason to examine this extreme region. IRS 3 offers a close look at that problem. The star is about 72 million years old, has roughly six…...