Featured Image: Extended Fireworks in Space
Are you planning to watch 4th of July fireworks tonight? Here’s a little preview on a cosmic scale!
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Featured Image: Saturn’s Moon Phoebe Is a Water-Rich Rock
Observations from Cassini’s flyby reveal the icy surface of Saturn’s largest irregular moon.
Featured Image: A Molecular Cloud Outside Our Galaxy
What do star-forming clouds outside our own galaxy look like? See for yourself in these images of N55, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Featured Image: Simulations of a Thin Disk
Accretion disks — which include everything from protoplanetary disks to disks around supermassive black holes — are notoriously challenging to model.
Featured Image: Identifying a Glowing Shell
New nebulae are being discovered and classified every day — and this false-color image reveals one of the more recent objects of interest.
Featured Image: Stars from Broken Clouds and Disks
This still from a simulation captures the formation of a multiple-star system in action.
Featured Image: Diamonds in a Meteorite
The sparkle in this image? A cluster of nanodiamonds, embedded in a stony meteorite that fell to Earth in 1942.
Featured Image: Bright Dots in a Sunspot
The centers of sunspots aren’t all dark! This image of a sunspot reveals umbral dots — transient, bright features that lie in dark sunspot umbrae.
Featured Image: A New Dark Vortex on Neptune
These Hubble images track a rare dark vortex in Neptune’s atmosphere as it evolves over the span of two years.
Featured Image: A Dwarf Galaxy with an Active Nucleus
Hubble reveals a detailed look at the dwarf galaxy hosting the smallest active supermassive black hole known.