Messier 43 – a star-forming nebula
Messier 43, also known as De Mairan’s Nebula and NGC 1982, is a star-forming nebula with a prominent H II region in the equatorial constellation…
Astronomy
The Discovery of a Brown Dwarf That is Hotter Than the Sun
A planet-like object hotter than the sun has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Their paper was accepted for publication in Nature Astronomy…
Human-Necessary Amino Acid Discovered in Interstellar Space
One of the 20 amino acids required by humans has been identified by astronomers in the Perseus Molecular Complex, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years from…
IC 2118 – a Witch Head Nebula
IC 2118 (also known as the Witch Head Nebula due to its shape) is an extremely faint reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion that…
Trifid Nebula
The Trifid Nebula is a H II region in the Milky Way’s Scutum-Centaurus Arm, located northwest of Sagittarius. It also known as Messier 20 (M20),…
Will it be Unsafe to Look at Betelgeuse With a Telescope When it Goes Supernova?
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant on the verge of exploding in a supernova explosion, which could happen within the next 1,000 years. When the star…
NGC 604 – an H II region
NGC 604 is an H II region located within the Triangulum Galaxy. William Herschel discovered it on September 11, 1784. It is one of the…
Hubble’s 33rd Anniversary is Marked by a Look at a Nearby Star-Forming Zone
In honor of the 33rd anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s debut, astronomers have captured an ethereal image of the nearby star-forming region NGC 1333.…
Chinese Researchers Find Rubidium and Samarium in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere that is Far Away
Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have studied the atmosphere of MASCARA-4b, a far-off “ultra-hot Jupiter” exoplanet, using the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky…
We’ve Just Edged Closer to Settling the Dark Matter Controversy With a New Look at “Einstein rings” Encircling far-off Galaxies
According to physicists, the majority of the universe’s matter is composed of an invisible material that humans can only detect indirectly by its effects on…
The Large Magellanic Cloud is Being Held in Place by the Gravity of the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy observable with the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere, is the greatest nearest partner of our galaxy.…
Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region that forms the LMC’s southeast corner (from Earth’s perspective). It is…
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