Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a white dwarf—the remnant of a dying star’s core—enjoying a meal of some fragment researchers later identified as coming from a Pluto-like object. […]
This Is the First-Ever Image of Neptune’s Auroral Glow
The Webb Space Telescope has given us our first glimpse of Neptune glowing with bright auroras, a visually stunning phenomenon that has long evaded scientists studying the ice giant. Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first […]
Hubble Hits the ‘Bullseye,’ a Galaxy With Record-Breaking 9 Rings
The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way. Despite the galaxy’s size, capturing this image proved no small feat. The Bullseye (affectionately) lies 567 million light-years from Earth, making it a rather distant object to […]