In this image of the Serpentine Nebula from the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a cluster of protostellar outflows lined up within a small region (upper left corner). In Webb’s image, these jets are signified by bright clustered streaks that appear red, which are shock waves from the … Read more
Astronomers are witnessing a spectacle never before seen in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers spotted an unusual galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. A sudden bump in the galaxy’s brightness was automatically … Read more
The night sky may be on the verge of gaining a brand new star in a few weeks. T Coronae Borealis, also known as “The Blazing Star” or T CrB, is a binary star system located about 3,000 light-years from Earth. It will explode in spectacular fashion any day now. Usually too faint to see … Read more