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Worlds beyond our solar system.
Giant balls of hot gas that burn for millions to billions of years.
Black Holes
Concentrations of matter with gravity so powerful not even light can escape.
Collections of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust bound together by gravity.
NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona
Scientists have long speculated about the geometry of a black hole’s corona, a region created by strong magnetic fields threading through the accretion disk. Now observations from IXPE help shed light on these obscure environments.
Snippet of Euclid Mission’s Cosmic Atlas Released by ESA
ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
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NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies
NASA's Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano
Located 700 light-years away, a binary star system called R Aquarii redistributes products of nuclear energy in violent eruptions of glowing gas.
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