Omega Centauri as galactic nucleus

Black Holes

No Intermediate-Mass Black Hole for Omega Centauri?

Last month, astronomers discovered a giant black hole in Omega Centauri. But it might contain a swarm of stellar-mass black holes instead.

LHS 1140b artist's concepts of two possibilities

Exoplanets

A Closer Look at a Potential "Eyeball Planet"

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of LHS 1140b hint at a temperate water world with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere.

Rainbow colored image of the Serpens Nebula

Stellar Science

Webb Telescope Reveals Parallel Jets from Baby Stars

A new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a stunning alignment among the infant stars in the Serpens Nebula.

Early spiral galaxies

Galaxies

Spiral Galaxies May Be a Dime a Dozen in the Early Universe

A new study with data from the James Webb Space Telescope found that galaxies may have started forming spirals far earlier than astronomers previously thought.

Red dwarf star with large convective cells at left, while at right looms the bulk of an Earth-size terrestrial planet colored in mottled brown and hanging onto a thin, blue veneer of an atmosphere

Exoplanets

Astronomers Discover New Earth-size World Only 40 Light-Years Away

This nearby terrestrial world might just reveal the secrets of atmospheric composition and habitability for planets like Earth and Venus.

Orion in glass plate form

Astronomy and Society

A Century of Sky, Digitized

The Harvard College Observatory's glass plates, which record a century of changes in the sky, have now been converted into digital form.

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