This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 29th anniversary in space. The nebula, created by a binary star system, is ...

The Southern Crab Nebula — Hubble's 29th anniversary image. A binary star system shines at its center. One of the stars routinely erupts and flings off material off that forms the nebula. NASA, ESA, ...

In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks ...

This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese ...

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The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is part of an international effort, known as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which aims to construct the world's largest and most powerful gamma ...

The powerful signals might be coming from a magnetar. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists got a strange sense of déjà vu ...

Cards, flowers, chocolates … and gas filaments of nuclear waste? Valentine’s Day usually prompts an astronomer somewhere to gush about a heart-shaped something in the night sky, but this year a rather ...