Mirar las estrellas es como viajar en el tiempo. Hoy retrocedemos a hace 8.800 millones de años. El Radiotelescopio gigante de ondas métricas en la…
Astronomers find a black hole that spins slower than expected and nobody knows why
Thanks to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has made an unprecedented measurement of the spin of a black hole, one of the…
Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image so far of the galactic plane of the Milky Way
Two large research programs in astronomy, called EMU and PEGASUS, have teamed up to solve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: where is…
Billions of celestial objects captured by the survey of the Milky Way
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about exciting discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, and more. A new study of the…
Astronomers design a small laser device that can help detect signs of life on other distant planets
A team led by the University of Maryland (United States) has developed a new instrument specifically adapted to the needs of NASA space missions consisting…
Old and new stars paint a different picture of the Triangular Galaxy
A. Smercina/MJ Durbin/J. Dalcanton/BF Williams/University of Washington/NASA/ESA This gigantic image of the Triangular Galaxy, also known as Messier 33, is a composite of 54 different…
Images capture the aftermath of a stellar collision 850 years ago
The unusual firework-like structure of the Pa 30 nebula may result from the merger of two dying stars. Photo by Robert Fesen The unusual Pa…
Astronomers confirm that galaxies did not form in 6 days but in the early universe
Cosmic microwave radiation background. Credits: NASA See part of the galactic record right here where they formed billions of years ago when the universe was…
Astronomers detect a giant neutron star that existed for mere milliseconds
Merged neutron stars, pictured here, produce a gamma-ray burst when they come together and collapse into a black hole. Observations of two explosions made by…
Black holes that devastate the same stars over and over again captured by the Newtonian telescope
Image Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Two teams of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black…