Glancing Back
Just after its close flyby of Jupiter on Nov. 3, 2019, NASA’s Juno spacecraft caught this striking view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere as the spacecraft sped away from the giant…
Black Hole or Newborn Stars
Black holes are famous for ripping objects apart, including stars. But now, astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the births of stars over a mind-boggling distance,…
Black Hole or Newborn Stars? SOFIA Finds Galactic Puzzle
Even celestial objects can seem like they’re playing tricks. In a new study, scientists are puzzled by a black hole that seems to be changing its galactic surroundings in a…
Illuminating the Gas Between Galaxies with Supercomputing
This visualization shows data from the Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo project, known as FOGGIE, run on NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer by researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute…
Hubble Eyes an Emitting Galaxy
For this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye toward an emission-line galaxy called NGC 3749. When astronomers explore the contents and constituent parts of a galaxy somewhere in the universe,…