This new image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) reveals strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from its edge. The magnetic field structure is eerily similar to that of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes.
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to launch on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa in less than 7-months (Oct. 10). To ensure it can withstand the wild vibrations of the blast as well as the intense heat and cold of space, it was recently put through a series of hard-core tests at JPL.
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks, those blue jets Jets are shooting out from FS Tau in this image captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This multi-star system consists of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B (Haro 6-5B), the bright object to the far right.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an eye popping image of globular cluster NGC 1651, which is located 162,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Despite it nearly filling the entire image, globular clusters are typically around 10 to 300 light-years in diameter and NGC 1651 boasts a diameter of roughly 120 light-years.
While not as intriguing as this galactic question mark, peering into the heart of galaxy Centaurus A is just as mysterious. This galaxy is located 10 million light-years form Earth and at the center of Centaurus A lies a supermassive black hole with a mass of 55 million solar masses.
NASA’s tiny shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite is head to the International Space Station (ISS) to study cosmic blasts. It’s set to launch on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This stunning image of the Spider Web Galaxy, as captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcases its irregular shape in all its glory, located around 30 million light-years from Earth. It’s classified as UGC 5829 and consists of a large central body of dull-colored stars, with distorted arms around it.
This aptly named ‘Necklace Nebula’ located 15,000 light-years away was captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). Classified as PN G054.203.4, this nebula consists of a pair of tightly orbiting Sun-like stars where one of them expanded and engulfed its smaller companion around 10,000 years ago, creating something astronomers call a “common envelope.”