For fans of the Milky Way, Erik Monson, a first-year lecturer in Middle Tennessee State University’s Physics and Astronomy Department, will discuss “How to Build a Galaxy” during the next Star Party.| MTSU News
This Hubble image reveals new details in Messier 82, home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds.| NASA Science
This Hubble image features the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1309. Numerous background galaxies are visible through or are alongside the spiral.| NASA Science
NASA’s Hubble and Chandra teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, called an intermediate-mass black hole.| NASA Science
Black holes are kind of scary. Think about an invisible pitfall that swallows everything that gets close. Even light, the fastest thing in the universe, can’t escape them! From a scientist’s point of view, however, black holes are kind of cool. Their extreme nature makes them a very interesting thing to study, full of weird antics and head-scratching mysteries. Sitting at a nice and safe distance here on Earth, astronomers have been observing all sorts of weird events related to them, doi...| Astronotes
SETI researchers have announced an unprecedented search for "super civilizations" across over 2,800 distant galaxies.| The Debrief