"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" goes the song. But the color and appearance of the Moon depends upon the particular set…
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…
While he was working on the film Interstellar, executive producer Kip Thorne was tasked with creating the black hole that…
Supernovas are some of the most energetic and powerful events in the observable Universe. Briefly outshining entire galaxies, they are…
Like most galaxies, our Milky Way has a dark monster in its middle: an enormous black hole with the mass…
GRB 080913, a distant supernova detected by Swift. This image merges the view through Swift's UltraViolet and Optical Telescope, which…
Swift J1745-26, with a scale of the moon as it would appear in the field of view from Earth. This…
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Artist's illustration of a hot gas halo enveloping the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A.Gupta et al.) Our…
When a star suffered an untimely demise at the hands of a hidden black hole, astronomers detected its doleful, ululating…