Quasars were a mystery when first discovered in the early 1960s. They are extremely distant, starlike objects that emit enormous amounts of energy. Years later, astronomers understood that quasars are ...

This week’s small-telescope target is the Heart and Dagger Cluster, also known as open cluster NGC 2546 in Puppis. You’ll find this object not quite 3° northeast of magnitude 2.3 Naos (Zeta [ζ] Puppis ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy, called NGC 3079, is blowing bubbles in space and acting as an extraordinary particle accelerator. These "superbubbles" are likely being blown by outbursts powered ...

Two "superbubbles" were found in the galaxy NGC 3079. Pictured: These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal a white bubble of activity within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, as hot gas is ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

On Earth, we are familiar with bubbles associated with soap or carbonated water. These bubbles consist of a thin film of liquid enclosing a volume of air or other gas that is only a few inches across.

NASA has released captivating footage of cosmic “superbubbles” in an alien galaxy millions of light years away. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory found evidence of the “superbubbles” in galaxy NGC 3079 ...

Scientists have discovered the nuclear “supperbubbles” are thousands of lightyears wide. The bubbles act like particle accelerators 100 times more powerful than those found in Large Hadron Collider in ...