Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before.
Posted January 17, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Spiral Galaxies
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies. The X-rays outline giant clouds of cold gas in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4945. The gas appears to have blasted through the galaxy after its central supermassive black hole erupted some 5 […]
Posted January 11, 2024
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a stellar explosion throwing out sheets of debris in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy on July 7, 2003.
Posted December 29, 2023
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Supermassive Black Holes
The Sun
The Universe
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a path through the sky against the backdrop of high-energy sources within our galaxy and beyond. “The bright, steady gamma-ray glow of the Milky Way […]
Posted December 20, 2023
Astrophysics
Black Holes
BurstCube
CubeSats
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Neutron Stars
Small Satellite Missions
The Universe
Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions.
Posted December 18, 2023
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
The Milky Way
A star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is seen in exceptional detail in this image from Nov. 20, 2023, thanks to the Near-Infrared Camera instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sgr C region, along with some never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. […]
Posted November 20, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Protostars
Stars
The Milky Way
The Universe
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Posted November 20, 2023
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics Division
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
The Universe
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the […]
Posted November 9, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken.
Posted November 9, 2023
Euclid
Astrophysics
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Stars
The Universe
The new images from the Euclid mission include a cluster of thousands of distant galaxies, demonstrating the spacecraft’s unique abilities.  The Euclid mission, which will investigate the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, released its first five science images Tuesday, Nov.
Posted November 7, 2023
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