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Astronomers have found that groups of stars in certain environments can regulate the size of their group.

two spiral galaxies, one at upper-left the other at lower-right, both are nearly face-on providing views of their spiral arms, background stars and galaxies

Astronomers See Stellar Self-Control in Action

A new studying using data from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed new information about newborn stars.

Baby Star 'Burps' Tell Tales of Frantic Feeding, NASA Data Shows

Baby Star 'Burps' Tell Tales of Frantic Feeding, NASA Data Shows

NASA’s IXPE helped scientists find the best explanation yet for how blazar jets get accelerated to such high energies.

Testing hardware for NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission recently arrived at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Too big to fit through the building’s front door, the hardware was lowered by crane from the street to the basement laboratory.

NASA's IXPE Helps Solve Black Hole Jet Mystery

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies.

Composite X-ray & Optical Image of SNR 0519-69.0.

NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

Simulations carried out by supercomputer show how low-luminosity jets from a galaxy's monster black hole interact with their environment.

NASA Goddard Scientists Create Black Hole Jets with NCCS Discover Supercomputer

NASA Goddard Scientists Create Black Hole Jets with NCCS Discover Supercomputer

NASA's Roman Telescope will observe and search for kilonovae, which occur when neutron stars collision.

Bright spiral fills the scene. Its spiral arms are diffuse but evident. Bright blue-white star clusters dot its spiral arms.

How NASA's Roman Telescope Will Scan for Showstopping Explosions

Explore and learn about the environment and phenomena surrounding a black hole through a new interactive.

Glowing visualization of a black hole and its components

Interactive: Anatomy of a Black Hole

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Hubble Spies Sparkling Spray of Stars in NGC 2660

This glittering group of stars, shining through the darkness like sparks left behind by a firework, is NGC 2660 in the constellation Vela, best viewed in the southern sky.

'Listen' to the Light Echoes From a Black Hole

A new sonification turns X-ray “light echoes” from a black hole into sound.

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This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary stellar tapestry of birth and destruction. At the center of this image is a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun that is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust.

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