A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays. The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where ...
For this reason, there are not many images of astronomical objects in gamma wavelengths. This one, a gamma-ray image of the entire sky as seen from earth, took 18 months to create.
There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...
Caption This animation shows a region of the sky centered on the pulsar Geminga. The first image shows the total number of gamma rays detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope at energies from 8 to ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. NGC 2264 is a cluster ... new “Christmas Tree Cluster” images using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Whether you've caught a glimpse of the comet for yourself in the sky or not, you don't want to miss these breathtaking comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS photos we ... and multiple rays in its ghostly ...