Remains of a Type Ia Supernova. NASA / CXC / U.Texas, CC BY Sydney, Australia: What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter of a century, scientists have believed “normal” stuff like atoms and molecules that make up you, me, Earth, and nearly everything …
For the first time astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). As described in our latest press release, this work has helped explain an unusual structure in the debris from the destroyed star called the “Green Monster”, first discovered in Webb data in …
A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two, exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past 8 to …
A star forming region in NGC 2366, an irregular dwarf galaxy. (Image Credit: Observatorio de Calar Alto, J van Eymeren, AIRUB, ATNF and ÁR López-Sánchez). Subscribe to Notifications Subscribe to Notifications Galaxies have hundreds of billions of stars, while dwarf galaxies have only a few billion stars. They are small, …