...ctive star formation, traced by newly formed, massive blue stars. Their intense ultraviolet radiation ionises surrounding hydrogen gas, producing the faint red glow.
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For decades, we assumed galaxies came first.
Stars form, collapse, and slowly build black holes over billions of years. But the James Webb Space Telescope just found a black hole so massive, so an...
This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb, to reveal the latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month. This area of the sky...
Boletim Ciência aproxima a ciência do público. O convidado desta edição é o coordenador do Núcleo de Pesquisas em Espiritualidade e Saúde da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (NUPES/UFJF), Alexa...
The ALPHA Collaboration has increased the precision of its measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen by two orders of magnitude.
Slow solar wind. Except it’s not slow. At all.
It’s moving three to four times faster than we thought. We literally had to double-check.
That’s what happens when you stop waiting for the Moon to c...
Watch live with us on 12 August 2026 as a total solar eclipse crosses parts of Europe.
The path of totality will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and northeastern Portugal, while much of Eur...
The Hubble Space Telescope observed a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula, first in 1997 and now again, 2...
“Fly” through the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the Trifid Nebula. The video “floats” over the ridges of gas and dust and moves up toward Herbig-Haro 399, at the top of a brown cloud th...
...since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light, and for a record-breaking 45 hours without interruption.
Looking down from abov...
Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. The team managed...
This extraordinary planetary nebula in the constellation Draco has captivated astronomers for decades with its elaborate and multilayered structure
Here, the nebula is showcased through the combi...
On 14 March 1986, our Giotto spacecraft swept within 600 km of Comet Halley, obtaining the first close-up images of a comet. It revealed the first evidence of organic material in a comet and, still...
Asteroids don’t just collide in our Solar System. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers spotted the expanding debris cloud from a powerful asteroid collision around the nearby star Fomalhau...
This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. This extraordinary planetary neb...
ESA’s Proba-2 satellite recorded the same eclipse no less than four times as it whizzed round Earth!
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Our researchers developed an AI tool that allows them to inspect millions of astronomical images in a fraction of the time it would take a human.
They developed what’s called a neural network, an...
Let us take you back to cosmic dawn. Just 280 million years after the Big Bang, a surprisingly bright galaxy was already shining.
Confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope, MoM-z14 is helping sc...
Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Atac Imamoglu graduated from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. In 1991, he obtained his PhD from Stanford University. Between 1993 and 200...